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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:26am on 2006-07-14 under

"Teach a man to fish, and you've helped one man. Set up a self-sustaining institution that will be annually teaching thousands of people to fish for centuries to come and, well, now you're starting to make things happen." -- Todd Masco, 2006-06-29 (on a mailing list; quoted by permission)

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posted by [identity profile] mishamish.livejournal.com at 12:13pm on 2006-07-14
Or my preferred variant of that, from Terry Pratchett:

"Give a man a fire and he'll be warm for a few hours. LIGHT a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life."

Because I'm twisted like that.
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posted by [identity profile] razzle.livejournal.com at 01:18pm on 2006-07-14
That's a beautiful quote. Sounds like something Pete Seeger would say. :)
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posted by [personal profile] zenlizard at 02:14pm on 2006-07-14
I've always enjoyed the permutation:

Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll sit in a boat and drink beer all day.
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posted by [identity profile] caprinus.livejournal.com at 03:19pm on 2006-07-14
"Teach a man to fish, and you've helped one man. Set up a self-sustaining institution that will be annually teaching thousands of people to fish for centuries to come and, well, now you're starting to make things happen."

...like overfishing and the collapse of marine ecosystems!

Sometimes, you just can't win :)

(I think the reason every commentator so far has been silly is that there's something prima facie hilarious about fish. Especially pregnant farting fish that poop gold coins... No wait, where was I going with this?)
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