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"If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor." »Nikola Tesla, New York Times, October 19, 1931
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"The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken." »Homer
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"A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows." »O. Henry, "A Ruler of Men."
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"A body without wine is like a dessert without sugar. A pale woman can only be coloured with lipstick and rouge, and a pale man can only be coloured with wine!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Tis a good thing to laugh at any rate, and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness." »Chamfort
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"The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination...you can make feast of straw." »Jane Stanton Hitchcock
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"I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest." »John Buchan
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"*Every man's life is a train made of straw which tries to move on a track made of fire! The very next stop is ashes and dust." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"He shall separate himself from wine and strong drink, and shall drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried." »Numbers 63 Bible Hebrew
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"wine is bottled poetry." »Robert Louis Stevenson
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"I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved." »Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"No nation was ever drunk when wine was cheap." »Thomas Jefferson
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"Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark." »Ovid
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"Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence." »Robert Fripp
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"wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion." »Ovid
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"Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good." »Cuban Proverb
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"Men are like wine some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age." »Pope John XXIII
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"Religions change; beer and wine remain." »Hervey Allen
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"They say “Wine is Satan's falcon,”; apparently he uses it in hunting men!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine." »Heraclitus
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"Bronze is the mirror of the form wine, of the heart." »Aeschylus
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"Conversation is the enemy of good wine and food." »Alfred Hitchcock
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"One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all." »Alcaeus
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"If you see in your wine the reflection of a person not in your range of vision, don't drink it." »Chinese Proverb
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"What grape to keep its place in the sun, taught our ancestors to make wine?" »Cyril Connolly
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"Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever." »Aristophanes
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"Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine." »Benjamin Johnson
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"Fish, to taste good, must swim three times in water, in butter, and in wine." »Polish Proverb
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"The wine seems to be very closed-in and seems to have entered a dumb stage. Sort of a Marcel Meursault." »Paul S. Winalski
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"Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine." »Ben Johnson
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