“The Albert Boxler Riesling, not from Germany, but from Alsace, one of the high-end pours at twenty-six dollars a glass. And I was drinking it. Nicky had served it to me. To thank me. I rolled it through my mouth the way Simone had taught me, pursing my lips and cupping my tongue and almost making an inward whistle. I thought it would be sweet. I thought I tasted honey, or something like peaches. But then it was so dry it felt like someone had pierced me.”
Source: Sweetbitter
“from the California Chardonnay they'd requested to a white from the Rhône Valley. It would have similar viscosity and heft, with all the honeyed stone fruit, but without the dominant vanilla and butter of an over-oaked Chardonnay.”
Source: Sweetbitter
“I enjoy the idea of wine (almost) as much as I enjoy wine. Every glass of wine has a story, and as I savor a glass, I think of that story.”
Source: Let's Talk About Wine: A simple guide to the things you need to know to be able to talk intelligently about wine without sounding like a snob
“She took a sip of Armagnac and savored the caramel, cherry, dark chocolate, and lavender flavors.
"How do they make this?" she asked.
"It's basically brandy, distilled wine, but made in a more rustic, artisanal way.”
Source: Eat Post Like
“When the means of great violence are widespread, nothing is more dangerous to the powerful than that they create outrage and injustice, for outrage and injustice will certainly ignite retaliation in kind.
— BuSab Manual”
Source: The Dosadi Experiment
“The difference between the earnings of a common labourer and those of a well employed lawyer or physician, is
evidently much greater than that between the ordinary profits in any two different branches of trade. The
apparent difference, besides, in the profits of different trades, is generally a deception arising from our not
always distinguishing what ought to be considered as wages, from what ought to be considered as profit.”
Source: An Inquiry into the Nature and Cause of the Wealth of Nation vol II VIIth edition 1793 [Leather Bound]
“No legal system can maintain justice unless every participant — magisters, prosecutors, Legums, defendants, witnesses, all — risks life itself in whatever dispute comes before the bar. Everything must be risked in the Courtarena. If any element remains outside the contest and without personal risk, justice inevitably fails.
— Gowachin Law”
Source: The Dosadi Experiment
“In our book, alignment means being a partner in both directions, not just on the upside. Many “alignment” plans flunk this basic test, being artful forms of “heads I win, tails you lose.”
Source: The Essays of Warren Buffett : Lessons for Corporate America
“... to figure out why ethics, moral obligations, and skills cannot be easily separable in real life, consider the following when you tell someone in a position of responsibility, say your bookkeeper, "I trust you." Do you mean that one you trust his ethics?”
Source: Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
“Don't tell me what you think: just tell me what's in your portfolio.”
Source: Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life