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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The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die. – John Steinbeck

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Pollution
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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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work
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No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself. – John Steinbeck

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best
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Other Quotes from
Fishing
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I fish better with a lit cigar; some people fish better with talent. – Nick Lyons, Bright Rivers, 1977

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Fishing

There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm. – Patrick F. McManus, Never Sniff a Gift Fish, 1979

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Fishing

…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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Fishing
[T]his planet is covered with sordid men who demand that he who spends time fishing shall show returns in fish. – Leonidas Hubbard, Jr.

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Fishing

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Gardening is the slowest of the performing arts. – Author Unknown

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People of Berlin – people of the world – this is our moment. This is our time. – Barack Obama

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Perhaps violence, like pornography, is some kind of an evolutionary standby system, a last-resort device for throwing a wild joker into the game? – J. G. Ballard

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