"Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious."
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"Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old."
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"A meringue is really nothing but a foam. And what is a foam after all, but a big collection of bubbles? And what's a bubble? It's basically a very flimsy little latticework of proteins draped with water. We add sugar to this structure, which strengthens it. But things can, and do, go wrong."
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"Arlene and I have to get a divorce. She thinks I'm a pervert because I drank our water bed."
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"We take for granted the slow miracle whereby water in the irrigation of a vineyard becomes wine. It is only when Christ turns water into wine, in a quick motion, as it were, that we stand amazed."
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"A bath in Ganges undoubtedly absolves one of all sins; but what does that avail? They say that the sins perch on trees along the banks of the Ganges. No sooner does the man come back from the holy waters that the old sins jump on his shoulders from the trees. The same old sins take possession of him again. He is hardly out of the waters before they fall upon him."
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"The depths of the sea are only water after all."
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"Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters."
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"Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution."
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"The single most important duty of the federal government is to protect and defend our national sovereignty. There are new and disturbing reports of American nuclear submarines passing though Canadian waters without obtaining the permission of, or even notifying, the Canadian government."
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"Water the fruit trees and don’t water the thorns."
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"If each of my words were a drop of water, you would see through them and glimpse what I feel: gratitude, acknowledgement."
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"In our consciousness, there are many negative seeds and also many positive seeds. The practice is to avoid watering the negative seeds, and to identify and water the positive seeds every day."
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"Be like the rocky headland on which the waves constantly break. It stands firm, and round it the seething waters are laid to rest."
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"His letters ... have been like fine cold water when you are terribly thirsty."
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"I'd like to get something together - like a Handel, Bach, Muddy waters, flamenco type of thing. If I could get that sound, I'd be happy"
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"The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight."
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"Love is the mystery of water and a star."
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"The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. And for that they must be free."
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"In meditation...the power of God begins to reflect in the clear waters of your consciousness."
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