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• Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

  James Joyce

  Mind, Balance, Lost

  James Joyce (2016). “ULYSSES (Modern Classics Series)”, p.237, e-artnow

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• 'The best thing about hunting and fishing,' the Old Man said, 'is that you don't have to actually do it to enjoy it. You can go to bed every night thinking about how much fun you had twenty years ago, and it all comes back clear as moonlight.'

  Robert Ruark

  Fun, Memories, Night

  Robert Ruark (2016). “Old Man’s Boy Grows Up”, p.162, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Whether hunting is right or wrong, a spiritual experience, or an outlet for the killer instinct, one thing it is not is a sport.

  Richard Lerner

  Sports, Spiritual, Killers

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• I thrive on the adrenaline of excitement and danger. I just cannot stand boredom on the other side of it. Why am I a person who loves guns? I have no idea. Why do I like to go hunting? I don't know. It doesn't make sense to me. Why does somebody love golf, because that doesn't make sense to me either.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Golf, Gun, Ideas

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• A hunter that is worth his salt does not catch game because he sets his traps, or because he knows the hunting routines of his prey, but because he himself has no routines. This is his advantage. He is not at all like the animals he is after, fixed by heavy routines and predictable quirks; he is free, fluid, unpredictable

  Carlos Castaneda

  Animal, Games, Doe

  CARLOS CASTANEDA (1972). “Journey to Ixtlan”

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• Hunting is the noblest sport yet devised by the hand of man. There were mighty hunters in the Bible, and all the caves where the cave men lived are full of carvings of assorted game the head of the house drug home. If you hunt to eat, or hunt for sport for something fine, something that will make you proud, and make you remember every single detail of the day you found him and shot him, that is good too.

  Robert Ruark

  Sports, Home, Men

  Robert Chester Ruark (1957). “The Old Man and the boy”, Henry Holt & Company

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• I like sometimes to take rank hold on life and spend my day more as the animals do. Perhaps I have owed to this employment and tohunting, when quite young, my closest acquaintance with Nature. They early introduce us to and detain us in scenery with which otherwise, at that age, we should have little acquaintance.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Animal, Should Have, Age

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary”, p.131, 谷月社

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• I am so excited this year getting to play the 85th Anniversary Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Everyone knows on Thanksgiving morning to get up, turn on the TV and watch the parade, so to be an actual participant is going to be fun and I'm looking forward to it. I am gonna have to put on my deer hunting gear, though, to stay warm!

  Rodney Atkins

  Anniversary, Thanksgiving, Morning

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• Which is better -- to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better -- to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill? Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?

  William Golding

  Law, Like You, Rescue

  William Golding (2016). “Lord of the Flies”, p.131, Hamilton Books

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• I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers... clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.

  George Catlin

  Father, Sadness, Fire

  George Catlin (1841). “The Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North-American Indians, by Geo. Catlin: With Four Hundred Illustrations, Etched and Outlined, from His Original Paintings Now Exhibiting in His Indian Museum, Egyptian Hall, London”, p.156

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• Hardships are quickly forgotten. Intense heat, bitter cold, rain and snow, fatigue,and luckless hunting fade quickly into memories of great fellowship, thoughts of beautiful country, pleasant camps, and happy campfires.

  Fred Bear

  Beautiful, Country, Memories

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• [W]atching ducks land on a lake in Arkansas in the winter is about the closest to Heaven as you can find on this earth... and as someone who believes, according to my faith, I will go to Heaven when I die, I am pretty sure that there is duck hunting in Heaven!

  Mike Huckabee

  Believe, Winter, Lakes

  "Huckabee, Fluent in the NRA’s Language" by Jim Geraghty, www.nationalreview.com. September 21, 2007.

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• In a hunting society, children play with bows and arrows. In an information society, children play with information

  Henry Jenkins

  Children, Play, Arrows

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• Remember the three rules of vampire hunting. One: Never, ever look them in the eyes. Two: Never, ever give up your cross. Three: Aim for the head and heart. Even with silver ammo, it won't be a killing blow anywhere else." I felt like a kindergarten teacher sending her kiddies off to a hostile playground. "Don't panic if you get bitten. The bite can be cleansed. As long as they don't mesmerize you with their eyes, you can still fight.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Teacher, Giving Up, Heart

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.1855, Penguin

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• Golf is like hunting and fishing. What counts is the companionship and fellowship of friends, not what you catch or shoot.

  George Archer

  Golf, Fishing, Fellowship

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• When I was young, I was a hunter, walking wooded hillsides with confident steps and a gun in my hand. I knew the blur of wings, the rocketing form, and the Great Moment that only hunters know, when all existence draws down to two points and a single line. And the universe holds it breath. And what may be and what will be meet and become one - before the echo returns to its source.

  Pete Dunne

  Gun, Echoes, Hands

  Pete Dunne (1995). “Before the Echo: Essays on Nature”

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• Whether it is seen in personal terms or trans-personal terms, whether it is Heaven or Nirvana or Happy Hunting Ground or the Garden of Paradise, the weight and authority of tradition maintains that death is just an alteration in our state of consciousness, and that the quality of our continued existence in the afterlife depends on the quality of our living here and now.

  John Smith

  Spiritual, Garden, Afterlife

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• I'm pretty sure there will be duck hunting in Heaven, and I can't wait.

  Mike Huckabee

  Ducks, Waiting, Heaven

  Mike Huckabee's Remarks at NRA's "Celebration of American Values" Conference in Washington, DC, www.nraila.org. September 21, 2007.

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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?

  Albert Schweitzer

  Sports, Animal, Public Opinion

  Albert Schweitzer (1966). “The Teaching of Reverence for Life”

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• It is not larger, cleaner cages that justice demands...but empty cages; not traditional animal agriculture but a complete end to all commerce in the flesh of dead animals; not more humane hunting and trapping, but the total eradication of these barbarous practices.

  Tom Regan

  Animal, Practice, Agriculture

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• Orchid hunting is a mortal occupation.

  Susan Orlean

  Orchids, Occupation, Mortals

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• The treasure which you think not worth taking trouble and pains to find, this alone is the real treasure you are longing for all your life. The glittering treasure you are hunting for day and night lies buried on the other side of that hill yonder.

  B. Traven

  Pain, Real, Lying

  B. Traven (1963). “The Treasure the Sierra Madre”

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• Guns aren't toys! They're for family protection, hunting dangerous or delicious animals, and keeping the King of England out of your face!

  Homer

  Kings, Animal, Gun

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• Foxes may be furrier and sexier than rats, but they are still vermin, and need to be controlled and killed. When I consider all the different methods of killing foxes, my view, backed up by Lord Burns, is that hunting with hounds is the most natural way to kill them . We have to be honest about the fact that what really upsets some of my hon. Friends - and, perhaps, some Opposition Members too - is the idea that only toffs go hunting. If only hunters did not wear red coats, things might be different.

  Kate Hoey

  Views, Ideas, Upset

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• Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views of the state of nature and Rousseau's criticism of them... Nature is raw material, worthless without the mixture of human labor; yet nature is also the highest and most sacred thing. The same people who struggle to save the snail-darter bless the pill, worry about hunting deer and defend abortion. Reverence for nature, mastery of nature- whichever is convenient.

  Allan Bloom

  Struggle, Views, Worry

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