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“To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history”
― Clifton Fadiman

“Wine is like the incarnation--it is both divine and human”
― Paul Tillich

“Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile”
― Homer

“Beer is made by men, wine by God.”
― Martin Luther

“If we sip the wine, we find dreams coming upon us out of the imminent night”
― D. H. Lawrence

“A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover”
― Clifton Fadiman

“Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.”
― Andre Simon

“History, despite its wrenching pain cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage need not be lived again.”
― Maya Angelou

“Great wine works wonders and is itself one”
― Edward Steinberg, The Making of a Great Wine: Gaja and Sori San Lorenzo

“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”
― W.C. Fields

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates

“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America nor, for that matter, in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship. ... [V]oice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.”
― Hermann Göring

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

“A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention with the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequila.”
― Mitch Ratcliffe