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• The fisherman has a harmless, preoccupied look; he is a kind of vagrant, that nothing fears. He blends himself with the trees and the shadows. All his approaches are gentle and indirect. He times himself to the meandering, soliloquizing stream; he addresses himself to it as a lover to his mistress; he woos it and stays with it till he knows its hidden secrets. Where it deepens his purpose deepens; where it is shallow he is indifferent. He knows how to interpret its every glance and dimple; its beauty haunts him for days.

  John Burroughs

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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• Anybody who spends time off of Louisiana's shores can recognize that these oysters are not endangered. To classify them as such risks great harm to not only fishermen who make their living collecting oysters in the Gulf, but also to Louisiana's economy in total.

  Bobby Jindal

  Oysters, Risk, Louisiana

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• The fisherman could perhaps be bought for less than the fish.

  Juvenal

  Fishes

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• I'd like to own my own garage and my own fishery. I'd also like to be a professional fisherman. But I'll take whatever happens.

  Tom Felton

  Fisheries, Garage, Whatever Happens

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• In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic.

  Karl Marx

  Morning, Work, Mind

  Karl Marx, Jon Elster (1986). “Karl Marx: A Reader”, p.180, Cambridge University Press

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• You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Pride, Sea, Alive

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.31, Hamilton Books

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• He told us about Christ's disciples being fisherman, and we were left to assume...that all great fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fisherman and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.

  Norman Maclean

  Sea, Fishing, Dry

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• It is good even to be a fisherman in summer and in winter.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Winter, Fishing

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.34, Delphi Classics

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• To tell the truth, fishermen remain always boys as far as their amusement goes.

  Harold Russell

  Boys, Lakes, Sea

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• Anyone can be a fisherman in May.

  Ernest Hemingway

  May

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.4, Hamilton Books

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• I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.293, Diderot Publishing

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• Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish; it is as much an acquaintance with beavers, dippers, and other fishermen as it is the challenge of catching trout.

  Paul Schullery

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Paul Schullery, Marsha Karle (2013). “The Fishing Life: An Angler's Tales of Wild Rivers and Other Restless Metaphors”, p.35, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• It is quite easy to debase the sport, change its values, dilute its ethics and destroy its traditional associations with quietness, relaxation and the opportunity to think. Angling is not a competitive sport. The fisherman'- s only real competition is with his quarry and his only real challenge is the challenge to himself. Nothing can add to this, but the blight of interhuman competition can certainly detract from it.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Sports, Real, Opportunity

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• They say that negative things like stress, anxiety, tension, sorrow, and depression "squeeze the tube" so ideas don't flow through it. But if you get rid of that negativity, which goes away naturally when you transcend every day, these ideas are more freely flowing, and you get happy in the doing. You get fresh and inspiring ideas, and a bigger picture starts to emerge of the world and life. It's very good for the artist, businessman, fisherman, and any kind of person really.

  David Lynch

  Stress, Artist, Ideas

  "An Ocean of Solutions: The David Lynch Interview". Interview with Chris Grosso, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Once upon a time, a fisherman went out to sea. He caught many fish and threw them all into a large bucket on his boat. The fish were not yet dead, so the man decided to ease their suffering by killing them swiftly. While he worked, the cold air made his eyes water. One of the wounded fish saw this and said to the other: "What a kind heart this fisherman has- see how he cries for us." The other fish replied: "Ignore his tears and watch what he is doing with his hands.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Heart, Eye, Men

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• I'm not a golf player. I think golf and fishing are the same, but at the end of the day, you can't fry up and golf ball and dip it in tartar sauce. So I'm a fisherman.

  Daymond John

  Golf, Player, Thinking

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• From the Sun I learned this: when he goes down, overrich; he pours gold into the sea out of inexhaustible riches, so that even the poorest fisherman still rows with golden oars. For this I once saw and I did not tire of my tears as I watched it.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Compassion, Sea, Tears

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.190, Penguin

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• Good fishermen know that in talking about fishing, nothing is more interesting than the truth.

  Arthur Ransome

  Lakes, Talking, Sea

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• Have you thought about His (God) handling of the gospel? God needs to get a message out to the human race, without which they will perish...foreve r. What's the plan? First, He starts with the most unlikely group ever: a couple of prostitutes, a few fishermen with no better than a second-grade education, a tax collector. Then, he passes the ball to us. Unbelievable.

  John Eldredge

  Couple, Race, Groups

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• Jesus called fishermen, not graduates of rabbinical schools. The main requirement was to be natural and sincere.

  Jim Cymbala

  Jesus, School, Requirements

  Jim Cymbala (2010). “Fresh Wind Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People”, p.14, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Hatred

  The Dalai Lama (1997). “Healing Anger: The Power of Patience from a Buddhist Perspective”, p.92, Snow Lion Publications

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• The fisherman fishes as the urchin eats cream buns, from lust.

  T. H. White

  Lust, Buns, Fishes

  "England Have My Bones". Book by T. H. White, 1936.

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• One must go through life, be it red or blue, stark naked and accompanied by the music of a subtle fisherman, prepared at all times for a celebration.

  Francis Picabia

  Blue, Naked, Red

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• To be a good storyteller one must be gloriously alive. It is not possible to kindle fresh fires from burned-out embers. I have noticed that the best of the traditional storytellers whom I have heard have been those who live close to the heart of things-to the earth, the sea, wind and weather. They have been those who knew solitude, silence. They have been given unbroken time in which to feel deeply, to reach constantly for understanding. They have come to know the power of the spoken word. These storytellers have been sailors and peasants, wanderers and fisherman.

  Ruth Sawyer

  Heart, Wind, Sea

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• A poor fisherman who knows the beauties of the misty mornings is much richer than a wealthy man who sleeps till noon in his palace!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Morning, Sleep, Men

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