"Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes."

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Source : 1911 Siren Land,'Rain on the Hills'.

Norman Douglas

#Food Quotes #Trying Quotes #Culture Quotes

“Without equality, I say, there cannot be liberty.”
“Mathematics is no more computation than typing is literature.”
“My grandpa could go days, weeks, even months without a drink but if he took that first drink, he couldn't stop. Once, when I was twelve, my mom and I were driving and we saw my grandpa staggering drunk down the street. I asked if we should stop and help him. My mom sadly shook her head and kept driving.”
“If God is your world, what have you to fear?”

Source : Emma Curtis Hopkins (2012). “Scientific Christian Mental Practice”, p.174, Jazzybee Verlag
“All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.”
“Of all the questions about the future of leadership that we can raise for ourselves, we can be certain in our answer to only one: 'Who will lead us?' The answer, of course, is that we will be lead by those we have taught, and they will lead us as we have shown them they should.”
“With bass, especially bottom end, the vibration has to happen on stage otherwise the feel is wrong. This is why you can't scale the equipment down too far.”
“When we...go back in to the past and rake up all the troubles we've had, we end up reeling and straggering through life. Stability and peace of mind come by living in the moment.”

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