"The cask will long retain the flavour of the wine with which it was first seasoned."

-- Horace

#Wine Quotes #Long Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument of torture and consume ritualistic symbols of blood and flesh. ...And if any of you care to join me, come to the Harvard chapel on Sunday, kneel beneath the crucifix, and take Holy Communion.”
“I think you can make perfectly good television just from people who are genuinely interested, talking to people who genuinely know - simple as it sounds, it can be riveting.”
“If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.”
“The Cross was the manifestation of Divine love without reserve or limit; but it was also the expression of man's unutterable malignity.”

Source : Robert Anderson (2007). “The Silence of God”, p.73, Cosimo, Inc.
“Why do you think great leaders and great orations are coincident with wars, revolutions, and the founding or ending of governments and states? Common interests then are so clear that speeches are effortlessly drawn, but at present neither the facts nor the consequences are sufficiently clear to make oratory legitimate. This is the kind of war that will wind on and make fools of its partisans and opponents both.”
“The Chinese foreign ministry has said more than once that I am a free person. Did I do anything wrong by leaving my home?”

Source : "Chen Guangcheng says he fears reprisals against his family" by Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2012.
“People do not consciously and rationally choose the form of their society. Societies develop through processes of social evolution that are not under rational human control.”

Source : The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski (2005). “The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future”, p.46, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
“My grandmother's feet had been bound when she was two years old. Her mother...first wound a piece of white cloth about twenty feet long round her feet, bending all the toes except the big toe inward and under the sole. Then she placed a large stone on top to crush the arch.”

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