"We have reached the time in the life of the planet, and humanity's demand upon it, when every fisherman will have to be a river-keeper, a steward of marine shallows, a watchman on the high seas. We are beyond having to put back what we have taken out. We must put back more than we take out."

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Source : Thomas McGuane (1999). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, Knopf

Thomas McGuane

#Taken Quotes #Marine Quotes #Sea Quotes

“You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.”
“It is worth it to serve the Lord, young people. It is worth it, it is worth it, it is worth it a million times.”
“Sometimes being different is not going to be the most popular thing. But you have to be confident in you and what you know is right and stand firm. You may lose friends over it. Families may even split up because of it. But that's the price to pay. That's the cross to bear when you really live your life for Christ.”

Source : "A conversation with WNBA star and Olympic gold medalist DeLisha Milton-Jones". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.
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“We've grown from 18% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry to 23% of the profits of the top 25 companies in our industry over the last five years. Profits are up over 70%, where the industry profit is up about 35%. Pretty good.”
“Perhaps its familiarity rendered it temporarily invisible to you.”
“If Europe today accounts for just over 7 per cent of the worldâ€™s population, produces around 25 per cent of global GDP and has to finance 50 per cent of global social spending, then itâ€™s obvious that it will have to work very hard to maintain its prosperity and way of life,”
“Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence,”

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