"There's always going to be the cooler-clubbers who are going to harvest a lot of fish, but I think the hard-core bass fishermen release just about everything they catch these days. Years ago, I think people were willing to release smaller fish, but now I think they're willing to release them all, and that's the important part."

-- Philip K. Chapman

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“Nonmathematical people sometimes ask me, â€œYou know math, huh? Tell me something Iâ€™ve always wondered, What is infinity divided by infinity?â€ I can only reply, â€œThe words you just uttered do not make sense. That was not a mathematical sentence. You spoke of â€˜infinityâ€™ as if it were a number. Itâ€™s not. You may as well ask, 'What is truth divided by beauty?â€™ I have no clue. I only know how to divide numbers. â€˜Infinity,â€™ â€˜truth,â€™ â€˜beautyâ€™â€”those are not numbers.”

Source : John Derbyshire (2003). “Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics”, p.21, Joseph Henry Press
“It's that mind-heart connection that I believe compels us to not just be attentive to all the bright and dazzling things but also the dark and difficult things.”
“Working-class families in the north of England used to hear the 1611 Bible regularly at church and at home ... for us, the language didn't seem too difficult. I especially liked 'the quick and the dead' - you really get a feel for the difference if you live in a house with mice and a mousetrap.”
“I don't want to live and die with every point that's being played out there now. I'm going to let my coach live and die with every point.”
“Normal adult shopping is something I will never actually do, because it's no more possible for me to go shopping like normal adults do than it is for a man with no legs to wake up one day and walk. I can't miss shopping like you'd miss things you once had. I miss it in a different way. I miss it like you would miss a train.”
“When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again.”
“Politics must not be separated from religious values; religion must not be separated from political responsibility.”

Source : Joel C. Hunter (2011). “New Kind of Conservative (Large Print 16pt)”, p.171, ReadHowYouWant.com
“As leaders, we understand that intangibles are important, but we don't have a clue how to measure them.”

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