Hunter S. Thompson
Journalist, Author
"It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids."
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Pool
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Alan Cohen
Author
"A life without change is not a life; it is a stagnant pool."
Thornton Wilder
Playwright, Novelist, Poet
"Faith is a never-ending pool of clarity, reaching far beyond the margins of consciousness. We all know more than we know we know."
Khaled Hosseini
Author, Physician
"I finally had what I'd wantes all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into."
Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"Liverpool is the pool of life, it makes to live."
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"The recollected go forth to lives of renunciation. They take no pleasure in a fixed abode. Like wild swans abandoning a pool, they leave one resting place after another."
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"There is a small, but important, difference between peeing in the pool, and peeing into the pool."
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"I must confess, when I see anyone with an Obama 2012 bumper sticker, I recognize them as a threat to the gene pool."
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"It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources."
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"How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought."
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"Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hood be ever hanging ready. The fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be."
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"I've always wanted to like, swim in a swimming pool filled with peanut butter"
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"A good GI bill would increase the recruit pool."
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"We can make sure that people who don't have health insurance can buy into an insurance pool that gives them better bargaining power."
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"Mental degeneracy may be caused by lead poisoning. Or by a poor dip in the gene pool."
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"There are six-million shots in the game of pool."
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"How do you put everyone in the pool, so you have the right to dry yourself in the sun?"
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"Thought tends to collect in pools."
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"I'd just stepped out of the kiddie pool and into the deep end, with no floaties. And drowning was not an option."
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"As every pool reflects the image of the sun, so every thought and thing restores us an image and creature of the supreme Good. Theuniverse is perforated by a million channels for his activity. All things mount and mount."
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"I like walking in the pool. That isn't what makes me feel spiritual. But alive."
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"My biggest fear is that a paparazzi or someone ... is going to come in my backyard and see me when I get in my pool. That would be very unfortunate."
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"Those South Africans who berate me for being loyal to our friends, literally they can go and throw themselves into a pool. I am not going to betray the trust of those who helped us."
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"I don't want to sit around by the pool luxuriating with a margarita. That's just not what I want to do."
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"Pools of sorrow. Waves of joy."
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