"I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor."
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"Water will not flow from a faucet that is not connected to its source."
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"Awakened at midnight by the sound of the water jar cracking from the ice"
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"Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water...If I find in myself a desire, which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."
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"Cars, toys, aspirin, meat, toasters, water - nearly every product sold has passed basic safety regulations well in advance of being marketed and sold. But consumer credit is a kind of buyer-beware, wild west. That is partly the result of history."
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"Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks."
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"With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things."
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"From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other."
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"Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or cholera to be poured into the water supply of a great city, and it worked with amazing accuracy."
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"My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much."
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"Who may be called a paramahamsa? He who, like a swan, can take the milk from a mixture of milk and water, leaving aside the water. He who, like an ant, can take the sugar from a mixture of sugar and sand, leaving aside the sand."
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"The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?"
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"So let the mind flow like water. Face life with a calm and quiet mind and everything in life will be calm and quiet."
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"My fridge is really just vegan: coconut water, Gatorade (my favorite!), cucumbers, mint, kale, vegetables, ginger, and wheat grass."
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"The more we grow in love and virtue and holiness, the more we see love and virtue and holiness outside. All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm (which is in your power to do) and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you. It is like the hydrostatic paradox, one drop of water can balance the universe."
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"Wherever water flows, life flourishes: wherever tears fall, Divine mercy is shown."
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"Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty."
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"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they were scrutinised and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinise the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water."
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"The wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water."
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"Enlightenment for a wave is the moment the wave realizes it is water. At that moment, all fear of death disappears."
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