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Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
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Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and the murder of Polish Jews, we don't have large minority groups.
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Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?
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Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
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For 'Breaking Bad,' it was like, that's one of the best pilots, probably the best pilot I have ever read.
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For a manager to be perceived as a positive manager, they need a four to one positive to negative contact ratio.
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For a sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
De Profundis (1897) -
For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.
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For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.
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For every problem, there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong.
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For everything exists and not one sigh nor smile nor tear, one hair nor particle of dust, not one can pass away.
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For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
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For he who lives more lives than one: More deaths than one must die.
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For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!
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For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy.
De Consolatione Philosophia Book 2, prose 4 -
For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
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For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.
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For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together
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