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  • To go fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air, with the rush of the brook, or with the shimmer of sun on blue water. It brings meekness and inspiration from the decency of nature, charity toward tackle-makers, patience toward fish, a mockery of profits and egos, a quieting of hate, a rejoicing that you do not have to decide a darned thing until next week. And it is discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.

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    Men  
    Herbert Hoover (1946). “Addresses Upon the Road: World War II, 1941-1945”

  • Fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air. It brings meekness and inspiration, reduces our egoism, soothes our troubles and shames our wickedness. It is discipline in the equality of men--for all men are equal before fish.

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    Men  
    1951 Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

  • Lots of people committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing. The increase of crime is among those deprived of the regenerations that impregnate the mind and character of the fisherman.

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    Herbert Hoover (1963). “Fishing for Fun - and to Wash Your Soul”

  • The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.

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    Men  

  • There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

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    Herbert Hoover (1946). “Addresses Upon the American Road”

  • Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

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    Herbert Hoover (1963). “Fishing for Fun - and to Wash Your Soul”

  • All men are equal before fish.

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    1951 Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

  • Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish.

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    Men  
    Herbert Hoover (1946). “Addresses Upon the Road: World War II, 1941-1945”
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Herbert Hoover

  • Born: August 10, 1874
  • Died: October 20, 1964
  • Occupation: 31st U.S. President
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