"The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in what is their daily fare... On the contrary, in the countries which, either from excessive heat or cold, produce no grapes, and where wine consequently is dear and a rarity, drunkenness is a common vice."

-- Adam Smith

#Country Quotes #Wine Quotes #People Quotes

“The role James Baldwin played in my life is incommensurable as stated above. He helped, along with a few others, to shape the man that I am today. My debt to him is invaluable.”
“The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you.”
“The most fertile source of insight is hindsight.”

Source : Morris Kline (1982). “Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty”, p.101, Oxford University Press, USA
“The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery was to prevail.”
“Resourceful coaches strive to have more ways to win than the other team.”
“I like the 50s, party-movie aesthetic of the beach. I'm not really into modern-day beach.”
“Whatever someone told you, you can never be sure of what they said. Whatever someone said, you can never be sure of what you were meant to understand - so if it's really this complicated, what's the point of trying to infer things when you can just ask.”
“And I spoke out on women's rights, like equal pay for equal work”

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