"I've entered the world of wine without any professional training, but a definite appetite for good bottles."

-- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#Wine Quotes #Training Quotes #World Quotes

“Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank.”
“My opposition to war was not because of the horrors of war, not because war demands that the race offer up its very best in their full vigor, not because war means economic bankruptcy, domination of races by famine and disease, but because war is so completely ineffective, so stupid. It settles nothing.”
“For it is often the way we look at other people that imprisons them within their own narrowest allegiances. And it is also the way we look at them that may set them free.”

Source : Amin Maalouf (2001). “In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong”, p.22, Arcade Publishing
“A man seems never to know what anything means till he has lost it; and this I suppose is the reason why losses--vanishing away of things--are among the teachings of this world of shadows.”
“I have a whole different type of lifestyle.”
“Performing, I can take it or leave it. Horticulture is far more challenging. I'm absolutely fascinated by it.”
“One of the characteristics of kitsch is precisely the neutralization of 'extreme situations', particularly death, by turning them into some sentimental idyll.”
“Put a chair against the door, and turn the lights down low Write a letter to yourself, no one will ever know”

Source : Song: Could I Be Your Girl?, Album: Living Under June, 1994

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