"This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men."

-- Izaak Walton

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“Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.”
“It often happens that the man who pursues the dollar too diligently finds it hard to catch, but if he will pursue some other and better goal, dollars come around to see what sort of fellow he is.”
“In Count Julian I simply proposed to create a text which would allow for diverse levels of reading.”
“Of the sparkling wines, the most famous is Perth Pink. This is a bottle with a message in, and the message is "beware". This is not a wine for drinking; this is a wine for laying down and avoiding.”
“It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity.”

Source : "Return to Mathematical Circles". Book by Howard Eves, 1988.
“I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.”
“Morocco is such a beautiful place. It's incredibly beautiful. And also it is captivating place because for a writer, you feel that you make impact.”

Source : "Remembering Islamic Feminist Fatema Mernissi". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 10, 2015.
“I am the lead on NBC's 'Siberia,' and I loved that experience.”

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