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A funny quote from Bill Mason

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Jackfish

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12/08/2020 02:45PM

Paddling Magazine offered a list of 101 paddling quotes and I thought you'd get a laugh out of this one, just as I did.

"…portaging is like hitting yourself on the head with a hammer: it feels so good when you stop.” – Bill Mason

:) :)

"Keep close to Nature's heart, yourself; and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean." ~ John Muir

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Driftless

12/09/2020 11:32AM

So true!!!

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Grandma L

12/09/2020 03:52PM

More quotes please - that was a good one!

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alpinebrule

12/11/2020 05:58PM

Corollary to that quote, "definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result." So what does that make all of us?

Happy Holidays.

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fadersup

12/12/2020 06:11PM

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.

~Alan Alda

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HighnDry

12/15/2020 09:46AM

Jackfish: "Paddling Magazine offered a list of 101 paddling quotes and I thought you'd get a laugh out of this one, just as I did.

"…portaging is like hitting yourself on the head with a hammer: it feels so good when you stop.” – Bill Mason

:) :) "

Maybe that's why he so expertly ran all of those rapids? :)

"It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”

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