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I like white wine when it's young and vigorous. I don't think you should cellar white wine at all, unless it's white Burgundy, and definitely not nonvintage Champagne.


Robert M. Parker, Jr.

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ROBERT M. PIRSIG The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole fami...
ROBERT M. MACIVER Somewhere along the way we all go a bit mad. So burn, let go and dive into the horror, because maybe...
ROBERT M. DRAKE Sometimes the most beautiful people are beautifully broken.
ROBERT M. DRAKE Sometimes to self-discover you must self-destruct.
ROBERT M. DRAKE Death is the easy part, the hard part is living and knowing you could be so much more then you’re ...
ROBERT M. DRAKE She was a beautiful dreamer. The kind of girl, who kept her head in the clouds, loved above the star...
ROBERT M. DRAKE When you educate a man you educate an individual; when you educate a woman you educate a whole famil...
ROBERT M. MACIVER Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real ...
HENRY M. ROBERT The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG A world community can only exist with world communication, which means something more than extensive...
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive...
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there
ROBERT M. PIRSIG If you run from technology, it will chase you.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG The study of the art of motorcycle maintenance is really a miniature study of the art of rationality...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG Boredom always precedes a period of great creativity.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey w...
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.
ROBERT M. GATES The best kind of humans are the ones who stay.
ROBERT M. DRAKE A tamed woman will never leave her mark in the world.
ROBERT M. DRAKE Well, what I've said is that the war in Iraq will always be clouded by how it began, which was a...
ROBERT M. GATES You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG Health care costs are eating the Defense Department alive.
ROBERT M. GATES The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alum...
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinctio...
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS I think that Iran with a nuclear weapon is extremely destabilizing. I think it could precipitate a n...
ROBERT M. GATES Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unset...
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you've got it when you can't think of a...
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS Defense is not like other discretionary spending.
ROBERT M. GATES I've been very sensitive for a long time to the repeated pattern, during economic hard times or ...
ROBERT M. GATES Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts�...
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.
ROBERT M. HAMILTON Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for see...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG The funny thing about insane people is that it is kind of the opposite of being a celebrity. Nobody ...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG If Iraq and Afghanistan have taught us anything in recent history, it is the unpredictability of war...
ROBERT M. GATES One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true,...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been dir...
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
ROBERT M. HUTCHINS Some people have said, in so many words, that I'm kind of wooly-headed in believing that the Ira...
ROBERT M. GATES The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. ...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG I have a Disability yes thats true, but all that really means is I may have to take a slightly diffe...
ROBERT M. HENSEL Placing one foot in front of the other, I've climbed to higher lengths. Reaching beyond my own limit...
ROBERT M. HENSEL We, the one's who are challenged, need to be heard. To be seen not as a disability, but as a person ...
ROBERT M. HENSEL Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitroge...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away....
ROBERT M. PIRSIG If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan, I thin...
ROBERT M. GATES When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delus...
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