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		If a jar of wine is left in place a long time, the wine in it becomes clear, settled and fragrant. But if it is moved about, the wine becomes turbid and dull, tainted throughout by the lees. So you, too, should stay in the same place and you will find how greatly this benefits you.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Evagrius Ponticus 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		One client's wife managed to steam the labels off all of the several hundred bottles in her husband's prestigious wine collection, so the collection was worthless. The husband hosted 'What's that wine?' dinner parties. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Laura Wasser 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Carl Jung 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Street and park trees provide tremendous benefits to cities. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gavin Newsom 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My store, Wine Library, outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say that our success wasn't due to my hundreds of online videos about wine that went viral, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gary Vaynerchuk 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Karin Slaughter 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ralph Steadman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		If you love food and you love red wine and they put you in France, you're in a good place and you're in a bad place at the same time. You have to weigh yourself every day, and you have to have an alarm number. When you get to that number, you have to start putting it in reverse. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Salma Hayek 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I'm writing thrillers, more as a choice to spread my wings than anything. Writers, like good wine, should mature with age. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Ted Dekker 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm an entrepreneur first and a wine critic second. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gary Vaynerchuk 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				W. C. Fields 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me it's a form of sacrament. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Sally Quinn 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I eat excellent bread, clean meat, good crisp veggies, organic fruits and nice wine and cheese. It is one of the things I am truly grateful for. I'm not kidding. You can't ask a single mother of three working two jobs for minimum wage to eat that way. I am lucky. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rachael Taylor 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Rachel Cusk 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. A young man in love is essentially enraptured by the forces within himself. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Karen Blixen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Maud Muller looked and sighed: 'Ah me!That I the Judge's bride might be!He would dress me up in silks so fine,And praise and toast me at his wine.' 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Vanity 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Whether at Naishapur or Babylon, Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run, The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Omar Khayyam 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Perplext no more with Human or Divine, To-morrow's tangle to the winds resign, And lose your fingers in the tresses of The Cypress - slender Minister of Wine. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Omar Khayyam 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If Christianity is wine and Islam coffee, Buddhism is most certainly tea. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Alan Watts 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
	
	
	
	
		When we won the title, I received gifts and cards, bottles of wine, and Champagne. When I was sacked, my house was full. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Claudio Ranieri 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was brought up by a single mom in a poor town in Arkansas and while some aspects of small-town life were really positive - like the fact that everyone there is really sweet and hospitable - there is also this close-minded mentality, and that naturally made me want to rebel. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Mary Beth Patterson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Look at your watch now. You're still a super hot female. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
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		It's always been really important for me to try to maintain a balanced life, professional and personal, and this was absolutely something that my husband and I had hoped for. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Debra Messing 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		There must be an authority, and we believe that the most qualified authority in a household is the man's. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jean-Marie Le Pen 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		If a jar of wine is left in place a long time, the wine in it becomes clear, settled and fragrant. But if it is moved about, the wine becomes turbid and dull, tainted throughout by the lees. So you, too, should stay in the same place and you will find how greatly this benefits you. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Evagrius Ponticus