"The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth"

-- Jim Harrison

#Wine Quotes #Simple Quotes #Race Quotes

“Strike them and strike evil so that evil will be defeated.”

Source : Saddam Hussein's Speech on State-run Iraqi Television, March 24, 2003.
“Blessings upon all that hate contention, and love quietnesse, and vertue, and Angling.”

Source : Izaak Walton (1653). “The Compleat Angler: Or, the Contemplative Man's Recreation, Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing Not Unworthy the Perusal of Most Anglers”, p.246
“Nephi taught that by clinging to the word of God, as though it be a handrail, we would be able to avoid temptations and not lose our way in darkness. Thus, we would remain on the narrow path.”
“I love the idea of leaving some of the original abstract thought in, because the problem is that when you pick up a pen you become a snob, your own worse critic. You edit yourself in a way that is non-creative.”
“The course of the seasons is a piece of clockwork, with a cuckoo to call when it is spring.”
“In the end I would always pull up with a sense of glory, that loving is the strong side. It's feeble to be an object. What's the point of being loved in return, I'd ask myself.”
“Aspire to be like Mt. Fuji, with such a broad and solid foundation that the strongest earthquake cannot move you, and so tall that the greatest enterprises of common men seem insignificant from your lofty perspective. With your mind as high as Mt Fuji you can see all things clearly. And you can see all the forces that shape events; not just the things happening near to you.”
“It is working with clients and changing that perception. I don't mind if market commentators have that view. It's the view that clients have that matters.”

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