"Catch and release fishing may be cruelty masquerading as political correctness"

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Source : John McPhee (2003). “The Founding Fish”, p.330, Macmillan

John McPhee

#Sea Quotes #Fishing Quotes #Rivers Quotes

“You can’t lose with the stuff I use!”; “Some may say money is the root of all evil, but being in poverty is a damn shame!”; “The best thing you can do for the poor is not be one of them”; “God doesn’t want you to have your pie-in-the-sky, by and by, when you die. He wants you to have it now with a cherry on top!”; and “If it’s that difficult for a rich man to get into heaven, think how terrible it must be for a poor man to get in. He doesn’t even have a bribe for the gatekeeper!”
“African slavery is the corner-stone of the industrial, social, and political fabric of the South; and whatever wars against it, wars against her very existence. Strike down the institution of African slavery and you reduce the South to depopulation and barbarism.”
“Every angle that I looked at was somebody who I admired and was better than me. So it made me very afraid.”
“America is fundamentally conservative. People want a strong national defense. They want low taxes. They want individual freedoms. There's no doubt that the Republican party has got to rebuild. We've got to restructure. We've got to let new leaders come to the fore. But at the end of the day, those fundamental core principles are the ones that have made the nation great, not just the party affecting them.”

Source : Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
“Some hats can only be worn if you're willing to be jaunty, to set them at an angle and to walk beneath them with a spring in your stride as if you're only a step away from dancing. They demand a lot of you.”
“Like most good looking women, she was never sure of her beauty, and had to keep checking on it, to make sure it was still there.”

Source : Josephine Humphreys (2000). “The Fireman's Fair”, p.70, Penguin
“Locked up from mortal eye in shady leaves of destiny.”

Source : 'Wishes to His Supposed Mistress' (1648)
“The fundamental landscape of biology is undergoing a major upheaval, much as it did in the first decades of the 20th Century. This upheaval will take time to fully reveal its implications.”

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