"A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside, "I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.""

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Source : Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (2010). “A Handbook of Gastronomy”, p.373, Lulu.com

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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“Legacy leaders are the only ones wiling to pay the price to fix a broken culture.”
“The clash of religion. We've had to coexist for hundreds of years in Bulgaria, in the Balkans, and we still don't get along. It's a reason for so much tragedy.”

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“After all, there is nothing but failure.”
“Leaders don't rise to the pinnacle of success without developing the right set of attitudes and habits; they make every day a masterpiece.”
“Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.”

Source : Huston Smith (2003). “The Way Things Are: Conversations with Huston Smith on the Spiritual Life”, p.196, Univ of California Press
“Eyes like streams of melting snow, cold with the things she does not know. Heaven above and Hell beneath, liquid flames to hide her grief. Death, death, death with no release. Death, death, death with no release.”
“The Doomsayers have always had their uses, since they trigger the coping mechanism that often prevents the events they forecast.”
“I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop.”

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