"Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river."
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"Your heart is like a great river after a long spell of rain, spilling over its banks. All signposts that once stood on the ground are gone, inundated and carried away by that rush of water. And still the rain beats down on the surface of the river. Every time you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That’s it. That’s my heart."
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"No same man could walk through the same river twice, as the man and the river have since changed."
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"The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying."
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"Of course, Ankh-Morpork's citizens had always claimed that the river water was incredibly pure. Any water that had passed through so many kidneys, they reasoned, had to be very pure indeed."
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"True inner joy is self-created It does not rely on any outer circumstances A river is flowing in and through you carrying the message of joy. This divine joy is the sole purpose of life."
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"Dripping water hollows out a stone"
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"God is a great underground river that no one can dam up and no one can stop."
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"The habit of taking the line of least resistance makes all rivers and some men crooked."
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"Deep rivers run quiet."
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"I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests."
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"A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted."
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"A Woman in Harmony with her Spirit is like a river flowing."
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"Rain scatters plum petals; Weeping stains the earth. One can only take shelter And wait for clearing."
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"Be still like a mountain and flow like a great river."
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"The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men."
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"In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the Old Silurian Period the Mississippi River was upward of one million three hundred thousand miles long, seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesome returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact."
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"If you should ask me where I've been all this time I have to say "Things happen." I have to dwell on stones darkening the earth, on the river ruined in its own duration: I know nothing save things the birds have lost, the sea I left behind, or my sister crying. Why this abundance of places? Why does day lock with day? Why the dark night swilling round in our mouths? And why the dead?"
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"Faith? Haven't any. I'm not a nihilist or a relativist. I don't believe in anything but change. I'm a Heraclitean - you can't step in the same river twice."
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"Some drink deeply from the river of knowledge. Others only gargle."
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