"Use the longest leader you can handle. Usually you can handle one much longer than you imagine. Remember that the purpose of the leader is to conceal artificiality. If you believe a leader is at all necessary then you must admit that the longer the leader the better chances you have for success"

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Source : Ray Bergman (2000). “Trout”, p.360, Derrydale Press

Ray Bergman

#Believe Quotes #Sea Quotes #Fishing Quotes

“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”

Source : Hopes and Fears for Art "The Beauty of Life" (1882)
“Because I'm in a modern studio, there are so many possibilities - you can do so much. So it's sometimes a little bit confusing for me to actually see which way should I choose.”
“I am still married, yes - no children. I have Benzo, though; he's my dog, a Lhasa apso.”
“I'm on the Sensa diet. It's a little magic powder based on Dr. Hirsh's clinical trials and studies and it basically signals the brain that you're full through smellology.”
“The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.”
“Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.”

Source : 'Social Statics' (1850) pt. 4, ch. 30, 8
“One of my most memorable Thanksgiving memories was probably the first year that me and my two brothers decided to start our annual eating contest. We ate throughout the whole day. We started that morning and weighed ourselves, and at the very end of the night, we weighed ourselves out. And all three of us equally gained five pounds.”
“I want to be black, to know black, to luxuriate in whatever I might be calling blackness at any particular time, but to do so in order to come out on the other side, to experience a humanity that is neither colorless nor reducible to color.”

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