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• . . . had I a river I would gladly let all honest anglers that use the fly cast line in it, but, but where there is no protection, then nets, poison, dynamite, slaughter of fingerlings, and unholy baits devastate the fish, so that 'free fishing' spells no fishing at all.

  Andrew Lang

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  Andrew Lang (2014). “Introduction to the Compleat Angler”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No changes would be made and you would have nothing to fight against. Life would be dull as ditchwater.

  Alan Sillitoe

  Fighting, Dull, Would Be

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• And what a congress of stinks!- Roots ripe as old bait, Pulpy stems, rank, silo-rich, Leaf mold, manure, lime, piled against slippery planks, Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt kept breathing a small breath.

  Theodore Roethke

  Life, Giving Up, Breathing

  1948 The Lost Son,'Root Cellar'.

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• Remind yourself, in whatever way is personally meaningful, that it is not in your best interest to reinforce thoughts and feelings of unworthiness. Even if you've already taken the bait and feel the familiar pull of self-denigration, marshal your intelligence, courage, and humor in order to turn the tide. Ask yourself: Do I want to strengthen what I'm feeling now? Do I want to cut myself off from my basic goodness? Remind yourself that your fundamental nature is unconditionally open and free.

  Pema Chodron

  Meaningful, Taken, Cutting

  Pema Chodron (2008). “The Pocket Pema Chodron”, p.46, Shambhala Publications

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• Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.

  Sun Tzu

  Home, Army, Enemy

  Sun Tzu (2015). “The Art of War”, Booklassic

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• Beauty - a deceitful bait with a deadly hook.

  John Lyly

  Beauty, Hook, Deceitful

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• It's Good...But
  No more rush hour driving
  To start and end your day
  No more early alarm calls
  But..much less pay
  No more back stabbing
  Or rising to the bait
  No more phone calls from the boss
  Asking you to work late
  But...having to get by
  On half your hourly rate
  Now you have all day
  To sit or doze to stay to go
  Anywhere you like...
  ..cheaply
  You've got less dough
  Travel around the world
  Do anything you've desired
  But do it economically
  Now that you're retired

  John Walter Bratton

  Retirement, Phones, Boss

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• Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Successful, Mislead Us, Watches

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• Ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience store confrontations over loud music coming from a car will leave more teenaged boys bloodied and dead. Handguns do not enhance our safety, they exacerbate our flaws. tempt us to escalate arguments, and bait us into embracing confrontation, rather than avoiding it.

  Jason Whitlock

  Boys, Car, Safety

  "In KC, it’s no time for a game". www.foxsports.com. December 1, 2012.

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• I think they (Thatcher protesters) ought to be grateful for the fact that the people who hold our (pro-Thatcher) views, and who are not mindless bigots, won't allow their behaviour to provoke us into words or behaviour which would could be seen as a breach of the peace. Hopefully, those of us who admire Margaret Thatcher are too well-mannered to fall for the bait.

  Norman Tebbit

  Grateful, Fall, Thinking

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• The devil's snare does not catch you, unless you are first caught by the devil's bait.

  Ambrose

  Devil, Doe, Firsts

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• Both Marx and Nietzsche understood that moral outrage is the last resort of the powerless. That is why Marx refused to issue moral condemnations of capitalism, preferring instead to lay out, calmly and ruthlessly, his reasons for believing that it is destined to be replaced by socialism. And that is why Nietzsche mocks Christianity for portraying its crucified Saviour as bait wriggling on a hook to catch unsuspecting souls.

  Robert Paul Wolff

  Believe, Issues, Soul

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• "My only problem with women breastfeeding in public is they never wink back." It's kind of the perfect joke because it's a bait and switch.

  Gavin McInnes

  Perfect, Breastfeeding, Kind

  Source: thoughtcatalog.com

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• The bait is the means to get the fish where you want it, catch the fish and you forget the bait. The snare is the means to get the rabbit where you want it, catch the rabbit and forget the snare. Words are the means to get the idea where you want it, catch on to the idea and you forget about the words. Where shall I find a man who forgets about words, and have a word with him?

  Zhuangzi

  Creativity, Mean, Men

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• Three explanations dominate speculation about what Obama is up to. The first is that he's trying to lay the groundwork for his successor, presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton. The second is that he's trying to pad his legacy. The third is that he's trying to 'troll' or bait the GOP into debating his agenda rather than pursuing its own. All are plausible, and none necessarily contradicts the others.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Trying, Legacy, Three

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• When someone sets his affections upon the cross and the love of Christ, he crucifies the world as a dead and undesirable thing. The baits of sin lose their attraction and disappear. Fill your affections with the cross of Christ and you will find no room for sin.

  John Owen

  World, Rooms, Affection

  John Owen, James M. Houston (2004). “Triumph Over Temptation: Pursuing a Life of Purity”, p.102, David C Cook

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• The joy of the Lord will arm us against the assaults of our spiritual enemies, and, put our mouths out of taste for those pleasures with which the tempter baits his hooks.

  Matthew Henry

  Joy, Hook, Mouths

  "An Exposition of All the Books of the Old and New Testaments".

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• The job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a “dangerous enemy.

  Saul

  Jobs, Enemy, Establishment

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• Debt is a trap which man sets and baits himself, and then deliberately gets into.

  Josh Billings

  Men, Debt, Traps

  Josh Billings (1874). “Josh Billings' Wit and Humor”, p.180

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• Our current gun culture simply ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience-store confrontations over loud music coming from a car will leave more teenage boys bloodied and dead... What I believe is, if he [Belcher] didn’t possess/own a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today... Handguns do not enhance our safety. They exacerbate our flaws, tempt us to escalate arguments, and bait us into embracing confrontation rather than avoiding it.

  Bob Costas

  Teenage, Believe, Gun

  "In KC, it’s no time for a game" by Jason Whitlock, www.foxsports.com. December 1, 2012.

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• When Amos Moses was a boy his daddy would use him for alligator bait, tie a rope around his neck and throw him in the swamp.

  Jerry Reed

  Family, Boys, Ties

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• We're all worm bait waiting to happen. It's what you do while you wait that matters.

  Kinky Friedman

  Life, Waiting, Matter

  Kinky Friedman (1993). “Kinky Friedman: Three Complete Mysteries : Greenwich Killing Time/a Case of Lone Star/When the Cat's Away”, Outlet

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• He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery Than crushing His African children with slavery, Since all who take part in a waltz or cotillon Are mounted for hell on the devil's own pillion, Who, as every true orthodox Christian well knows, Approaches the heart through the door of the toes.

  James Russell Lowell

  Crush, Christian, Spiritual

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.316, Delphi Classics

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• O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not born where't grows, But worn a bait for ladies.

  William Shakespeare

  Husband, Men, Vow

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.77, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Plato, Men, Sea

  "De Senectute", XIII. 44, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 600-02,

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