"You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and what he pleaseth."
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"A mathematical idea should not be petrified in a formalised axiomatic setting, but should be considered instead as flowing as a river."
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"O.K." "Gee I'm glad." "Me too. I'm so sick of hot dogs and beer and apple pie with cheese on the side I could heave it all in the river." "You'll love it, Frank. We'll get a place up in the mountains, where it's cool, and then, after I get my act ready, we can go all over the world with it. Go as we please, do as we please, and have plenty of money to spend. Have you got a little bit of gypsy in you?" "Gypsy? I had rings in my ears when I was born."
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"Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels. They gathered mountains and valleys, rivers and whole horizons, the way a man might now gain tittle to building lots."
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"Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know how or when."
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"Sometimes there's just no way to hold back the river."
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"Oh! You're the people ruining the rivers."
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"I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army."
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"The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy)."
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"So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth."
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"What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief."
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"At the moment I'm so exhausted that I feel like cutting my throat, so the next news masy well be that I am across the river and under the trees: what is the meaning and purpose of life? Death."
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"Smile, breathe, and go slowly. Thich Nhat Hanh Don't try to steer the river."
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"All things are nourished together without their injuring one another. The courses of the seasons, and of the sun and moon, are pursued without any collision among them. The smaller energies are like river currents; the greater energies are seen in mighty transformations. It is this which makes heaven and earth so great."
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"The headlong stream is termed violent But the river bed hemming it in is Termed violent by no one."
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"An individual human existence should be like a river"
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"Bangladesh is largely a river delta, and the rising sea level means that when storms come in, the human sanitation is backing up, the ability to farm."
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"He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide."
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"I've only had one platinum album, and it's 'Red River Blue'."
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"But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me with the impression of a colorless swirling river that was making me dizzy."
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