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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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Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments. – John Steinbeck

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Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power. – John Steinbeck

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Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners. – John Steinbeck

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Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting. – Dave Barry

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…of all the liars among mankind, the fisherman is the most trustworthy. – William Sherwood Fox, Silken Lines and Silver Hooks, 1954

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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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There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind. – Washington Irving

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My kids are not that interested in my movie career, by the way. My son, in particular, never talks about it. He just wants me as his dad. – Hugh Jackman

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