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Izaak Walton

There are offences given and offences not given but taken.

Confidence, Given, Offences, Taken

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Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt.

Angling, Fully, Learnt, May, Saidtobe

Angling may be said to be so like the Mathematics that it can never be fully learnt; at least not so fully but that there will still be more new experiments left for the trial of other men that succeed us.

Angling, Learning, Left, Men, Science, Trial

Angling is an Art. . . an art worth your learning.

Angling, Art, Fishes, Learning

I have known a very good, fisher angle diligently four or six hours for a river carp, and not have a bite.

Bite, Four, Hours, Known, Rivers, Six

It [angling] deserves commendations;. . . it is an art worthy the knowledge and practice of a wise man.

Angling, Art, Commendations, Man, Men, Wise

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Dostoevsky's underground man. . . observes his contemporaries striving to establish false goals where there are no naturally generated ones. . . . He argues they should be conscious and honest enough to recognize that the goal itself is not an absolute, and probably not even important. A strong attachment to the telos indicates that the spontaneous enjoyment the child once took in road-building has waned.

Child, Children, Men, Strong, Telos

Tom Hollander

Tom Hollander

I'm on the verge of taking a stand.

Decision, Decision Making, Stand, Taking, Verge

Tom Shales

Somewhere around the turn of the century, it stopped being hip to say you never watched TV. Adults are much more likely to find something to engage them on television than they are at the local multiplex. Edges are being cut on television all the time, but at the movies only now and then.

Adults, Cutting, Engage, Stopped, Television, Turn

Rick Riordan

Rick Riordan

Kronos would be 10 times more powerful. His very presence would incinerate you. And once he achieves this he will empower the other Titans. They are weak, compared to what they soon will become, unless you can stop them, the world will fall, the gods will die, and I will never achieve a perfect score on this stupid machine.

Fall, Powerful, Presence, Stupid, Weak

David Rockefeller

David Rockefeller

We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years. . . . . . It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supernational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries.

Grateful, March, New York, Past, World, York