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Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )

Joined 22 November 2006

Interesting quotes

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  • William Edward Ensko "We are fighting hard. We will paint Germany and all the Germans red, white and blue pretty soon. We have them running away from us now and it won't be long before they quit cold."
  • Charles F. Kinner "Why," said he "we've been outside along the near-by coast pretty much every week this summer, cruising about anywhere from one to twenty miles off shore, and we've never failed to troll the 'squids' astern on the chance of hooking a stray bluefish, as we've done many years before from this and many other boats I've sailed. This year, however, we haven't had a single 'strike' of any sort whatever. Now, I might think that this was only 'just our luck,' but I was talking to the captain of one of the pilot-boats the other day, and he assured me that he had the same experience all during the season. He told me that in former years they had always managed first and last to catch by trolling all the fish they wanted to eat at some time during the season. Sometimes they were 'running' and sometimes they weren't, but sooner or later they would always get into a school of 'em and hook onto all they wanted. This year, however, he had sailed his boat up and down through schools of bluefish away out to sea, and done the same in shore where the 'chummers' were anchored and catching 'em that way hand over fist, but never a bluefish, big or little, would take a squid or any other trolling lure that he had used." Now we have here the simple evidence of two intelligent and observant seafaring men about a matter which is of no great importance to either of them and is of the more value on that account. Of course it does not prove anything, but it suggested the query "How do you account for it?" It is possible, but not probable, that the bluefish have reached a point in their evolution where they recognize the metal "squid " as an hereditary danger-or rather they have an hereditary perception of the danger of the metal "squid." This would be a most satisfactory explanation to the advocates of the theory of evolution, but unfortunately for them. the experiences of one season, though pointing in this direction, can hardly be regarded as conclusive evidence. Meantime who among the readers of The Angler can suggest some simple, unscientific and commonplace explanation of what appears to be an observed and remarkable fact?
  • Carl Henry Schneider "Of course you had to have guts, and in those days I had plenty," Schneider once said of his combat exploits. He described Baron Manfred von Richthofen, better known as the Red Baron, as "a hunter, I saw him fighting five planes at one time."

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Donald N. Esposito

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Apple Computer

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  • A foreman immediately roused 8,000 workers inside the company’s dormitories, according to the executive. Each employee was given a biscuit and a cup of tea, guided to a workstation and within half an hour started a 12-hour shift fitting glass screens into beveled frames. Within 96 hours, the plant was producing over 10,000 iPhones a day.

Katie Fahey

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