George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance."
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Hunting
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Hunter S. Thompson
Journalist, Author
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
Frederick The Great
King
"A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species."
Ernest Hemingway
Novelist
"When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first."
Oscar Wilde
Writer
"The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable."
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"Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party."
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"The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions."
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"'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!"
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"I continue to be a photographer; I have enjoyed fishing and hunting with a close friend; and have owned two ranches, first in northern California and then in the state of Washington."
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"For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes."
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"Seafood is simply a socially acceptable form of bush meat. We condemn Africans for hunting monkeys and mammalian and bird species from the jungle yet the developed world thinks nothing of hauling in magnificent wild creatures like swordfish, tuna, halibut, shark, and salmon for our meals. The fact is that the global slaughter of marine wildlife is simply the largest massacre of wildlife on the planet."
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"I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body... and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight, hunting for you, for your hot heart, like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue."
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"There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth."
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"I am an artist... It's self-evident that what that word implies is looking for something all the time without ever finding it in full. It is the opposite of saying, 'I know all about it. I've already found it.' As far as I'm concerned, the word means, 'I am looking. I am hunting for it. I am deeply involved.'"
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"Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, horseback riding, and canoeing."
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"There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes."
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"There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast."
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"The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?"
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"I was not only hunting for my liberty, but also hunting for my name."
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"Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one."
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"Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the most part unsubdued. Like all such hinterland sciences, it is a happy hunting-ground for adventurers."
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"I'm hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything that happens to you, there is another truth, a secret life."
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"But you've been too busy saving the Wizarding world. Well ... I can't say I'm surprised. I knew this would happen in the end. I knew you wouldn't be happy unless you were hunting Voldemort. Maybe that's why I like you so much."
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"We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected."
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"Captain Clarke who had gone out yesterday with eighteen men to bring in the meat we had killed the day before, and to continue the hunt, came in at twelve o'clock."
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