Give a man a fish,he'll eat for a day.Teach a man to fish,he'll eat for a lifetime.What's the origin of this?
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Build a man a fire, and he's warm for a day.  Set a man on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life.
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There are at least two possible origins, and both seem pretty believable:\n\nFirst: In the days of sailing ships when Sailors were paid a pittance, seamen drank their ale in taverns whose keepers were willing to extend credit until payday. Since many of he sailors were illiterate, inn keepers kept a tally of pints and quarts consumed by each sailor on a chalkboard behind the bar. Next to each person's name, a mark was made under "P" for pint or "Q" for quart whenever a seaman ordered another draught. \n\nOn payday, each seaman was liable for each mark next to his name, so he was forced to "mind his P's and Q's" or he would get into financial trouble. To ensure an accurate count by unscrupulous keepers, sailors had to keep their wits and remain somewhat sober. Sobriety usually ensured good behavior, hence the meaning of "mind your P's and Q's." \n\nSecond: "Mind your P's and Q's" is thought to have originated with printers who set headlines using movable type. If you've ever seen old type, you know the letters are mirror images of the regular alphabet. Lower-case P's look like Q's and vice versa. "Mind your P's and Q's" was a reminder not to mix up the letters when putting them back in the rack after use.
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The phrase comes from a Norse (and then Middle English) verb that has been lost to us.  You might even trace the expression to the Greek verb "agein," which means "to lead," or maybe "agon," which is a contest.\n\nRegretably, it has nothing to do with eggs, egg products, or the laying of eggs.
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Half of their life is spent underwater eating underwater things.  The rest of their life is spent out of water eating out of water things.  They occupy two niches in thier life.  So essentially they live as two animals in their life.  Kind of like how Whitney Houston lived most of her life as the greatest diva ever, and the rest as a good punchline for drug abuse jokes.
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Living things use, store, and emit energies and other chemical compounds; non-living things don't.  Living organsims burn off 90% of all the energy that it intakes and only 10% turns into other muscle tissue or is stored for further usage.  So if a bird eats ten fish then only abou 1 of those fish's nutrients will make up the bird's mass and be stored the other 9 fish's nutrients will be burned in daily activities.  At least I'm pretty sure that's how it is.
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The connection between fish and Christianity is the well known (at least it used to be well known) acronym that uses the first letters of each word in the following Greek phrase: Iesous Christos Theou Yios Soter (Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour). The letters form the Greek for fish - ICHTHYS. Thus, the symbol for fish became a sign for Christians. There are deeper meanings between fish and Christ - he's the fisherman, we're little fishes, etc. - but these came after the fact. \n\nChristianity isn't the only religion with fishy connections:\nhttp://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/docs/wps/wps03_005.pdf
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Actually it's because in the early days of the church people were not getting enough protein in their diets so the church told them to eat fish once a week (it was the cheapest and easiest to obtain in that area at that time).  The Pope then made it a decree.
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Very well written. A few edits in [brackets] with explanations in (parenthesis).  English is HARD.\n\n\nAfter hatching, the tadpole will eat the [remaining] yolk (awkward) (no comma for subordinate clause) which is in their gut. [The tadpole] (pronoun-antecedent rules)  only had gills, a mouth and a tail when it first came out so it is very dangerous for them. If they [weren't] (subjunctive case for a conditional statement-tough one) careful, they [would] (matches the case) get eaten in no time[.]  (New clause) I’m so glad I’m not a frog; at least I don’t have to worry about this kind of problem! Then 7-10 days after hatching, the tadpoles can swim around[,] (separating independent clauses) and then they will not eat yolk anymore[;] (independent clause) they will find algae to eat. About 4 weeks later, the gills will start getting grown over by skin, and soon they will disappear! Wow! That really is fast! At [that] (article rules) time, tadpoles will get teeth, which can help them (no need to to leave "to chew" in the infinitive) chew and digest better. Few days after that, the tadpoles will interact and be friends with each other, isn’t that great?
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I'm not certain of the context, but, taken literally, the logic follows... \n\n...as the child develops into the man, the child, or boy, in a sense, gives "birth" or gives way to the man, and thus is the origin or "father" or the man.
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Well in Fishing atleast you can eat your "Prize Catch" hahahahaha. So Fishing is my choice.\n\n.:Fishie:.
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It's not the fish that are smart, their brains are relatively small, but the Omega 3 fatty acids and the iodine that their flesh is rich in are the substances that human brains can use to function better. Fish live in an environment where, to survive, they have to eat other fish and they themselves run the risk of being eaten 24 hours a day. This is why they swim in shoals so that larger, predator, fish will avoid them as the shape they see gives them the impression that the shoal itself, is a big fish waiting to eat them.
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No sooner said than done - so acts your man of worth. - Franz Kafka\n\nor \n\n 6. It was no sooner said than done--a huge haul of fish, straining the nets past capacity. 7They waved to their partners in the other boat to come help them. They filled both boats, nearly swamping them with the catch. - Luke 5 (The Message), Bible
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Man is the supreme predator of all time. We take more than we need and give nothing back. If we were meant to eat animal flesh we should be able to hunt, kill and feast as carnivores do.
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The Human Soul. Precisely the same Hebrew phrase used of the animal creation, namely, ne´phesh chai·yah´ (living soul), is applied to Adam, when, after God formed man out of dust from the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, “the man came to be a living soul.” (Ge 2:7) Man was distinct from the animal creation, but that distinction was not because he was a ne´phesh (soul) and they were not. Rather, the record shows that it was because man alone was created “in God’s image.” (Ge 1:26, 27)\n\n He was created with moral qualities like those of God, with power and wisdom far superior to the animals; hence he could have in subjection all the lower forms of creature life. (Ge 1:26, 28) Man’s organism was more complex, as well as more versatile, than that of the animals. (Compare 1Co 15:39.) Likewise, Adam had, but lost, the prospect of eternal life; this is never stated with regard to the creatures lower than man.—Ge 2:15-17; 3:22-24.\n\nSoul—A Living Creature. As stated, man “came to be a living soul”; hence man was a soul, he did not have a soul as something immaterial, invisible, and intangible residing inside him. The apostle Paul shows that the Christian teaching did not differ from the earlier Hebrew teaching, for he quotes Genesis 2:7 in saying: “It is even so written: ‘The first man Adam became a living soul [psy·khen´ zo´san].’ . . . The first man is out of the earth and made of dust.”—1Co 15:45-47.\n\nSince the term ne´phesh refers to the creature itself, we should expect to find the normal physical functions or characteristics of fleshly creatures attributed to it. \nThis is exactly the case. Ne´phesh (soul) is spoken of as eating flesh, fat, blood, or similar material things (Le 7:18, 20, 25, 27; 17:10, 12, 15; De 23:24); being hungry for or craving food and drink (De 12:15, 20, 21; Ps 107:9; Pr 19:15; 27:7; Isa 29:8; 32:6; Mic 7:1); being made fat (Pr 11:25); fasting (Ps 35:13); touching unclean things, such as a dead body (Le 5:2; 7:21; 17:15; 22:6; Nu 19:13); being ‘seized as a pledge’ or being ‘kidnapped’ (De 24:6, 7); doing work (Le 23:30); being refreshed by cold water when tired (Pr 25:25); being purchased (Le 22:11; Eze 27:13); being given as a vow offering (Le 27:2); being put in irons (Ps 105:18); being sleepless (Ps 119:28); and struggling for breath (Jer 15:9).\n\n Genesis, as well as many other portions of the Scriptures, shows that man does not have a soul as something immaterial residing in him. Rather, he is a soul. At death man passes into nonexistence, awaiting a resurrection. (Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10; John 5:28, 29; Acts 24:15; Revelation 20:12, 13) The Bible likens death to a sleep from which one can be awakened in the resurrection.—John 11:11, 43, 44.
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its a metaphor that isnt directly stated\n\ninstead of "the fly is a man"\n\n"the fly man" or "the man fly"\n\nlike “The river of life” doenst directly equate life to river
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since we all evolved form one celled organisms, which started in water, then we do come from fish. the "land egg" got us out of the water.
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*** dad always used to tell me "eat a piece of bread" if you had a fishbone or anything stuck in your throat...just a dry piece of bread.  not sure i ever did it...i hated bread...but it's worth a shot...i spose.