Quote by John Steinbeck
It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his

It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming. – John Steinbeck

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Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard. – John Steinbeck

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Courage
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It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming. – John Steinbeck

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Intelligence
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It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world. – John Steinbeck

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Death
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Fishing
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As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint. – Jack Handey

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Fishing

Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish. – Roderick Haig-Brown, about modern fishing, A River Never Sleeps, 1946

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Fishing

Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley. – Author Unknown

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Fishing

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl. – Ernest Hemingway

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Fishing

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Food was a constant topic of conversation in our household. – Paul Lynde

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My mother, who hates thunderstorms,
Holds up each summer day and shakes
It out suspiciously, lest swarms
Of grape-dark clouds are lurking there…. – Philip Larkin

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Thunderstorms

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didnt make it. – Henry A. Kissinger

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War

There is nothing impossible to him who will try. – Alexander The Great

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Determination