"Anglers boast of the innocence of their pastime; yet it puts fellow-creatures to the torture. They pique themselves on their meditative faculties; and yet their only excuse is a want of thought."

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Leigh Hunt

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“We don't really have a place in the universe, as far as on a timeline. But nothing else does either. Therefore every moment really is the most important moment that's ever happened, including this moment right now.”
“a swell of gratitude and appreciation for his assistant, as opposed to the murderous rage he felt toward the rest of his staff”
“The average 20-year-old serving us in Iraq knows more about their country's national security than the average 20-year political veteran serving in the Congress today.”
“I'm not a poster boy for good behavior and recovery in Hollywood, I'm just a guy who knows he has a lot to be grateful for.”
“Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.”
“What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.”

Source : Attributed to Margaret Mead in "Teaching Music Through Performance In Band, Volume 3" edited by Larry Blocher, Eugene Corporon, Ray Cramer, Tim Lautzeheiser, and others (p. 13), 2000.
“When Sir Winton Turnbull [who represented a large rural seat] was raving and ranting on the adjournment and shouted: â€œI am a Country memberâ€. I interjected â€œI rememberâ€. He could not understand why, for the first time in all the years he had been speaking in the House, there was instant and loud applause from both sides.”

Source : Gough Whitlam's speech during a debate at the Sydney Town Hall, May 24, 2000.
“Let us prove to the world that good taste, good art, and good writing can be good selling.”

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