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We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, "Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did."

Izaak Walton

The Compleat Angler

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Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler. London: Richard Marriot, 1653, pt. 1, ch. 5.

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Walton, Izaak. The Compleat Angler, edited by Marjorie Swann. Oxford University Press, 2014, pt. 1, ch. 5.

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Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or creep or drip or crash. Be water, my friend.

Bruce Lee

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"The Way of the Intercepting Fist." Longstreet, written by Stirling Silliphant, season 1, episode 1, Edling Productions, 1971.

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They say travel broadens the mind; but you must have the mind.

G.K. Chesterton

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Chesterton, G.K. "The Poet and the Lunatics." Nash's Magazine, 1921, ch. 3.

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Chesterton, G.K. The Poet and the Lunatics. Dover, 2010, ch. 3.

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What a woman thinks of women is the test of her nature.

George Meredith

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Meredith, George. Diana of the Crossways. London: Chapman and Hall, 1885. Originally published in Fortnightly, 1884.

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There's no eternity to the things we can touch. My master used to say, there's nothing we can hold onto in this world. Only by letting go can we finally possess what is real.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Directed by Ang Lee, Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia/Good Machine International/Edko Films/Zoom Hunt Productions/China Film Co-production Corp./Asia Union Film & Entertainment, 2000.

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People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I am not a crook.

Richard Nixon

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Nixon, Richard. Associated Press Managing Editors Annual Conference. 17 Nov. 1973, Disney's Contemporary Resort, Orlando, FL. Q and A Session.

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Water's precious. Sometimes it can be more precious than gold.

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Directed by John Huston, Warner Bros.-First National, 1948.

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The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is to a more violent world.

Hannah Arendt

On Violence

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Arendt, Hannah. "On Violence." Crises of the Republic. Vintage, 1972, ch. 3. Originally published as "A Special Supplement: Reflections on Violence." by The New York Review, 27 Feb. 1969.

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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.

Evelyn Waugh

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Waugh, Evelyn. Diary Entry. 26 March 1962.

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Reality denied comes back to haunt.

Philip K. Dick

Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said

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Dick, Philip K. Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said. Doubleday, 1974, ch. 15.

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I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset.

Langston Hughes

The Negro Speaks of Rivers

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Hughes, Langston. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." The Crisis, June 1921, I. 5.

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Hughes, Langston. "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." The Weary Blues. Alfred A. Knopf, 2015, I. 5.

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It was the remark of a Roman consul in an early period of that celebrated Republic that a most striking contrast was observable in the conduct of candidates for offices of power and trust before and after obtaining them, they seldom carrying out in the latter case the pledges and promises made in the former.

William Henry Harrison

Inaugural Address of William Henry Harrison

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Harrison, William Henry. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1841, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else.

Fred Rogers

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Rogers, Fred. The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember. Hachette Books, 2019, p. 14.

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You must pay for everything in this world, one way or another. There is nothin' free except the grace of God.

True Grit

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True Grit. Directed by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, Skydance Productions/Mike Zoss Productions/Scott Rudin Productions, 2010.

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Ain't nobody from outside bringing down the property value. It's these folk, shootin' each other and sellin' that crack rock and shit.

Boyz n the Hood

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Boyz n the Hood. Directed by John Singleton, Columbia Pictures, 1991.

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To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affection. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed towards a love to our country and to mankind.

Edmund Burke

Reflections on the Revolution in France

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Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France. London: James Dodsley, 1790.

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Burke, Edmund. "Reflections on the Revolution in France." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

Edmund Burke

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Burke, Edmund. Letter to a Member of the National Assembly. London: J. Dodsley, 1791.

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Burke, Edmund. Letter to a Member of the National Assembly." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

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See, Winter comes to rule the varied year,
Sullen and sad.

James Thomson

The Seasons: Winter

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Thomson, James. Winter. London: John Millan, 1726.

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Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient-dealing with it by making statements about it, authorizing views of it, describing it, by teaching it, settling it, ruling over it: in short, Orientalism as a Western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the Orient.

Edward Said

Orientalism

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Said, Edward. Orientalism. Pantheon Books, 1978, introduction.

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I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

James Madison

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Madison, James. "General Defense of the Constitution." Virginia Ratifying Convention. 5 June 1788, Richmond, VA, USA.

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Madison, James. "Speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention in Defense of the Constitution, June 6, 1788." James Madison: Writings. Library of America, 1999.

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