"...next to the pleasure of reading a favourite fishing book comes that of persuading a friend to read it too."

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Source : Arthur Ransome (2013). “Fishing”, p.9, Cambridge University Press

Arthur Ransome

#Reading Quotes #Book Quotes #Lakes Quotes

“The suit does not represent the businessman anymore. Nor does the loud shirt represent the rock star. The same man can now wear both.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“There is in my opinion a great similarity between the problems provided by the mysterious behavior of the atom and those provided by the present economic paradoxes confronting the world.”
“I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux.”
“There is much to learn about what could happen in the gardens of the future, should designers wish to learn about the past.”

Source : Tom Turner (2005). “Garden History: Philosophy and Design, 2000 BC--2000 AD”, p.437, Taylor & Francis
“It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.”
“Patience and perseverance are never more thoroughly Christian graces than when features of prayer.”
“Two opposing forces inhabit the poem: one of elevation or up-rooting, which pulls the word from the language: the other of gravity, which makes it return. The poem is an original and unique creation, but it is also reading and recitation: participation. The poet creates it; the people, by recitation, re-create it. Poet and reader are two moments of a single reality.”
“We are stronger together than we are alone.”

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