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  2. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    One might as well throw water into the sea as to do a kindness to rogues; One law for the rich and another for the poor; Opportunity does not knock until you build a door; One swallow does not make a summer; One who believes in Sword, dies by the Sword; One who speaks only one language is one person, but one who speaks two languages is two people.

  3. J. R. Hartley - Wikipedia

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    Author Michael Russell wrote and published a spoof called Fly Fishing: Memories of Angling Days, by J. R. Hartley in 1991. [4] [5] The book was a best seller and led to two additional best sellers under the pseudonym J. R. Hartley: J.R. Hartley Casts Again – More Memories of Angling Days (1992) and Golfing by J. Hartley (1995). [2]

  4. A River Runs Through It (film) - Wikipedia

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    The Maclean brothers, Norman and Paul, grow up in Missoula, Montana, with their mother, Clara, and their father, Rev. John Maclean, a Presbyterian minister, from whom they learn a love of fly fishing for trout in the Blackfoot River. Norman and Paul are home-schooled under the strict moral and academic code of their father.

  5. Theodore Gordon - Wikipedia

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    It was developed to provide a water supply for New York City. [1] The Neversink and Delaware rivers are still known for fly fishing. John McDonald compiled Gordon's writing into the book The Complete Fly Fisherman: The Notes and Letters of Theodore Gordon (1947). [6] In the late 1800s Theodore Gordon began fishing the Neversink River in New ...

  6. Keepers of the flame: Taiwan keeps the art of fire fishing alive

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    Like a magnet, hundreds of fish leap out of the water, attracted to the bright light waved by fishermen in the boat above. Keepers of the flame: Taiwan keeps the art of fire fishing alive Skip to ...

  7. Tears in rain monologue - Wikipedia

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    In the documentary Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner, Hauer, director Ridley Scott, and screenwriter David Peoples confirm that Hauer significantly modified the speech. . In his autobiography, Hauer said he merely cut the original scripted speech by several lines, adding only, "All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain".

  8. G. E. M. Skues - Wikipedia

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    It was at Winchester that Skues was introduced to fly fishing when, in 1874, he bought some hooks in Hammond's to catch minnows. Hammond's, an angling shop in Winchester, introduced Skues to fly fishing and his first attempt was made using an eleven-foot rod, a silk and horsehair line, and a Wickham's Fancy.

  9. List of idioms of improbability - Wikipedia

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    Spanish – cuando las vacas vuelen ("when cows fly") or cuando los chanchos vuelen ("when pigs fly"). Its most common use is in response to an affirmative statement, for example "I saw Mrs. Smith exercising, I swear!" to which the response given would be something like, "Yeah right, and cows fly".