"Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water."
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"The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day."
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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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"Hate is like a swordfish, working through water invisibly and then you see it coming with blood along its blade, but transparency disarms it."
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"They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat."
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"Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container."
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"There is no drop of water in the ocean, not even in the deepest parts of the abyss, that does not know and respond to the mysterious forces that create the tide."
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"How much courage does it take to fire up your tractor and plow under a crop you spent six or seven years growing? How much courage to go on and do that after you've spent all that time finding out how to prepare the soil and when to plant and how much to water and when to reap? How much to just say, "I have to quit these peas. Peas are no good for me, I better try corn or beans."
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"So many people that I've seen can't get clean water. It's a crime."
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"The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters."
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"The still lake without ripples is an image of our minds at ease, so full of unlimited friendliness for all the junk at the bottom of the lake that we don't feel the need to churn up the waters just to avoid looking at what's there."
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"There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it."
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"It is useless to try to stir the dirt Out of the muddy water, As it will become murkier. But leave it alone, And if it should be cleared; It will become clear by itself."
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"Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes."
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"Have a goal in life. When water is everywhere, it is a flood, but if it is in between banks, it is a river. It is nice to have a goal, so your life force gets channelized!"
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"I got this powdered water - now I don't know what to add."
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"Thousands of years ago only Christ could walk on the water. Today anybody can do it; you just step on the garbage."
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"Nothing is weaker than water, Yet for overcoming what is hard and strong, Nothing surpasses it."
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"Desire is what takes the hot water of mediocrity and turns it into the steam of outstanding success."
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"Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world."
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