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• It was a confusion of ideas between him and one of the lions he was hunting in Kenya that had caused A. B. Spottsworth to make the obituary column. He thought the lion was dead, and the lion thought it wasn't.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Humorous, Ideas, Confusion

  "Ring for Jeeves". Book by P. G. Wodehouse, 1953.

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• I was not only hunting for my liberty, but also hunting for my name.

  William Wells Brown

  Names, Liberty

  William Wells Brown (2003). “The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave”, p.43, Courier Corporation

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• The entire animal rights movement in the United States reacted with unfettered glee at the Ban in England ...We view this act of parliament as one of the most important actions in the history of the animal rights movement. This will energise our efforts to stop hunting with hounds.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Animal, Rights, Views

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• If we could shut down all sport hunting in a moment, we would.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Sports, Animal, Moments

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• Once we get three more directors elected, the Sierra Club will no longer be pro-hunting and pro-trapping and we can use the resources of the $95-million-a-year budget to address some of these issues.

  Paul Watson

  Animal, Years, Issues

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• Australian Aboriginees say that the big stories - the stories worth telling and retelling, the ones in which you may find the meaning of your life - are forever stalking the right teller, sniffing and tracking like predators hunting prey in the bush.

  Robert Moss

  Forever, Stories, May

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• Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.

  Samuel Johnson

  America, Gentleman, Savages

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “Johnsoniana: Or, Supplement to Boswell: Being Anecdotes and Sayings of Dr. Johnson”

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• I went hunting, I shot a deer, and it mortified me. I just couldn't do it again.

  Channing Tatum

  Deer, Shots

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• All the inducements of early society tend to foster immediate action; all its penalties fall on the man who pauses; the traditional wisdom of those times was never weary of inculcating that "delays are dangerous," and that the sluggish man the man "who roasteth not that which he took in hunting" will not prosper on the earth, and indeed will very soon perish out of it. And in consequence an inability to stay quiet, an irritable desire to act directly, is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.

  Walter Bagehot

  Fall, Men, Desire

  Walter Bagehot (1873). “Physics and Politics: Or, Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "natural Selection" and "inheritance" to Political Society”, p.186

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• Accounts of outrages committed by mobs form the every-day news of the times. They have pervaded the country from New England to Louisiana, they are neither peculiar to the eternal snows of the former nor the burning suns of the latter; they are not the creature of climate, neither are they confined to the slaveholding or the non-slaveholding States. Alike they spring up among the pleasure-hunting masters of Southern slaves, and the order-loving citizens of the land of steady habits. Whatever then their cause may be, it is common to the whole country.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Spring, Order

  Abraham Lincoln, Terence Ball (2013). “Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches”, p.12, Cambridge University Press

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• I pledged myself to smoke but one cigar a day. I kept the cigar waiting until bedtime, then I had a luxurious time with it. But desire persecuted me every day and all day long. I found myself hunting for larger cigars...within the month my cigar had grown to such proportions I could have used it as a crutch.

  Mark Twain

  Long, Waiting, Desire

  Mark Twain (2015). “Following the Equator: "A Journey Around the World"”, p.18, eKitap Projesi via PublishDrive

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• And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind.

  John Dryden

  Women, Design, Devil

  John Dryden, C. B., Esquire Charles BATHURST (1852). “Selections from the poetry of Dryden, including his plays and translations. [The editor's preface signed: C. B., i.e. Charles Bathurst.]”, p.271

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• The Pennsylvania Game Commission has charged a man with going deer hunting with a handgun in a Wal-Mart parking lot. He is being charged with reckless endangerment, but may plead guilty to the lesser charge of being a redneck.... Hunting in a Wal-Mart parking lot. That's got to be some good eating — a deer that lives on leftover Twizzlers and Mountain Dew.

  Jay Leno

  Redneck, Men, Games

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• I take the threat of terrorism very seriously, and no one is more committed to hunting down terrorists and bringing them to justice, wherever they live, than I am.

  Harry Reid

  Justice, Terrorism, Threat

  Source: voices.washingtonpost.com

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• I sometimes get in the car [and] jump all around hunting for a sample, and then I can get really annoying if anyone's in the car with me. But if I'm actually listening to music, I have a pretty solid attention span.

  Girl Talk

  Car, Listening, Attention

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Although Lewis Carroll thought of The Hunting of the Snark as a nonsense ballad for children, it is hard to imagine - in fact one shudders to imagine - a child of today reading and enjoying it.

  Martin Gardner

  Children, Reading, Today

  "The Annotated Snark". Book by Martin Gardner, 1962.

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• The flesh is sweeter, where the creature has some chance for its life; for that reason, I always use a single ball, even if it be at a bird or a squirrel; besides, it saves lead, for, when a body knows how to shoot, one piece of lead is enough for all, except hard-lived animals.

  James F. Cooper

  Animal, Squirrels, Bird

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• Women never look so well as when one comes in wet and dirty from hunting.

  Robert Smith Surtees

  Dirty, Looks, Wells

  'Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour' (1853) ch. 21

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• Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has found his niche in making the sound of solitude a triumphant experience, like Good Will Hunting: The Musical.

  Chris Martin

  Solitude, Musical, Sound

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• I'll make my old clothes know who's master. I shall straightaway cashier the hunting-frock, and render my leather breeches incapable. My hair has been in training some time.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Hair, Clothes, Training

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• Strange friend,' I said,'here is no cause to mourn.' 'None,'said the other,'save the undone years, The hopelessness.Whatever hope is yours Was my life also; I went hunting wild After the wildest beauty in the world.

  Wilfred Owen

  Years, World, Causes

  'Strange Meeting' (written 1918)

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• I've gone out with my shotgun. This is hunting country out there. You better run.

  Lou Reed

  Running, Country, Gone

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• Is it [hunting] really a sport if you have all the equipment and your opponent doesn't know a game is going on?

  Bill Maher

  Sports, Games, Opponents

  "Video: Bill Maher and Top Comedians ‘Stand Up for Animals’". www.peta.org. June 15, 2014.

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• I wouldn't miss the fame. I don't go out hunting for it. I try to avoid it and to slip into the background wherever I go.

  Julia Sawalha

  Missing, Trying, Fame

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• The difference between hunting and fishing is that hunters seek their prey while fishermen try to become prey; they do their best to make their lures look attractive and vulnerable so that fish will attack them.

  Walter D. Wetherell

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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