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"Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does."
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"Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime."
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"If there is such a thing as a workaholic, I'm it, and that's what passes for leisure."
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"Nice passion is reading."
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"The Wild Wood is pretty well populated by now; with all the usual lot, good, bad, and indifferent - I name no names. It takes all sorts to make a world."
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"After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working."
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"Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does."
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"As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler."
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"Angling is just a way of relaxing and escaping in the countryside."
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"I remember in that red leisure suit I sort of felt like a Pizza Hut employee, and the white one was the ultimate, with the white turtleneck collar, that was the ultimate in bad taste."
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"It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self."
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"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
Art
"The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled."
Money
"Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted."
People
"All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership."
Leadership
"One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know."
Wisdom
"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof."
Choice
"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking."
Job
"Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue."
Virtue
"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone."
Conformity
"It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation."
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