"The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. --The Fruit Hunters"
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"We used to be hunter-gatherers, now we're shopper-borrowers."
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"I shall always think of myself first and foremost... as a hunter."
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"Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!"
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"No writer or thinker has taught me as much as James Hunter has about this all-important and complex subject of how culture is changed."
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"When some of my friends have asked me anxiously about their boys, whether they should let them hunt, I have answered yes-- remembering that it was one of the best parts of my education-- make them hunters."
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"There are no lazy veteran lion hunters."
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"Myths and legends die hard in America."
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"There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death?"
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"Most people who deal in words don't have much faith in them and I am no exception."
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"A bad hunter chases. A good hunter waits."
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"The hunter follows things which flee from him; he leaves them when they are taken; and ever seeks for that which is beyond what he has found. [Lat., Venator sequitur fugientia; capta relinquit; Semper et inventis ulteriora petit.]"
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"The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished."
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"Hunter Pence eats pizza with a fork."
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"Unlike aboriginal hunters, commercial seal hunters leave the carcasses on the ice to rot."
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"And nobody is talking about taking guns away from hunters or sportsmen or banning all guns. Nobody is talking about that."
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"Someone got killed up here.... It was outside. A tall man. He had one leg longer’n the other. And a beard. He was probably a hunter." "How’d you know all that?" "I just trod on ‘im."
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"A hunter in love with his prey."
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"After running for my life from hunters, a girl with too much lip gloss doesn't register on my fear radar."
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"Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the Industrial Revolution. Was it any better in the time of Charles Kingsley or Charles Dickens?"
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