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All men, even those we call savages, have been so tormented by the passion for strong drinks, that limited as their capacities were, they were yet able to manufacture them. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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I mean it's very hard to meditate and live a spiritual life in America. People think you're a freak if you try to. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#life

I think the most wonderful thing in the world is another chef. I'm always excited about learning new things about food. ↗

— Paul Prudhomme

#always #another #chef #excited #food

I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words. ↗

— Joseph Pulitzer

#concentrated #day #hard #hard work #i

I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects. ↗

— Martin Puryear

#distilled #i #interested #making #never

I believe the U.S. already understands and will understand more and more that only a strong Russia will respond to the genuine interests of the United States. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

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The Resistance is a moral certainty, not a poetic one. The true poet never uses words in order to punish someone. His judgment belongs to a creative order; it is not formulated as a prophetic scripture. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#certainty #creative #formulated #his #judgment

Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets. ↗

— Nido Qubein

#concentrating #energies #life #limited #more

Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others. ↗

— Pasquier Quesnel

#blind #others #regulated #rights #upon

I started off with the really funky stuff like Ramsey Lewis, Milt Jackson, Kenny Burrell. ↗

— Robert Quine

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