"Of course, with agriculture came the first big civilizations, the first cities built of mud and brick, the first empires. And it was the administers of these empires who began hiring people to keep track of the wheat and sheep and wine that was owed and the taxes that was owed on them by making marks; marks on clay in that time."

-- Howard Rheingold

#Wine Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Cities Quotes

“Nothing is text but what is spoken of in the Bible and meant there for person and place; the rest is application; which a discreet man may do well; but it is his scripture, not the Holy Ghost's. First, in your sermons use your logic, and then your rhetoric; rhetoric without logic is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root.”
“I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney.”
“At the top of the iron staircase leading to the stage, the good, dry, dusty warmth wraps me round like a comfortable dirty cloak.”
“I believe it is our attitude that determines our altitude. It is our attitude that allows us to soar above those things that would otherwise overcome us.”
“I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing.”
“I should have gone to college and gone into real estate and got myself an aquarium, that's what I should have done.”
“The ceremonial and religious uses of psychedelics are much older than their recreational uses and abuses. For most of their history, they have been mysterious, dangerous substances and must be treated respectfully.”

Source : Humphry Osmond, Jerome Agel (1981). “Predicting the past: memos on the enticing universe of possibility”, Macmillan Pub Co
“I never really understood how movies were made, because it was such a technical accomplishment.”

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