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"People look like rivers very much: water is everywhere the same, but the rivers are narrow, fast, wide, pure, cold, muddy and warm. The people are the same. They have the rudiment of every human habit in them and they behave according to them. Sometimes they even do not look like themselves, but they still stay whatever they are."
"We frequently define an acid or a base as a substance whose aqueous solution gives, respectively, a higher concentration of hydrogen ion or of hydroxide ion than that furnished by pure water. This is a very one sided definition."
"English coffee tastes like water that has been squeezed out of a wet sleeve."
"The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air."
"And in spite of everything, Ireland remains the brain of the Kingdom. The English, judiciously practical and ponderous, furnish the over-stuffed stomach of humanity with a perfect gadget--the water closet. The Irish, condemned to express themselves in a language not their own, have stamped on it the mark of their own genius and compete for glory with the civilized nations. This is then called English literature."
"American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it."
"Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers."
"We have to learn how to come out of unclean situations cleaner than we were, and even how to wash ourselves with dirty water whenwe need to."
"Enough of clouds, waves, aquariums, water-sprites and nocturnal scents; what we need is music of the earth, everyday music..music one can live in like a house."
"The undersea world surrounding Green Island looks just like a water fairyland."
"The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward."
"Caught one a live by poreing a great quantity of Water in his hole."
"To be good to the vile is to throw water into the sea."
"I can drown a drink of water. I can kill a dead tree. Don't mess with Muhammad Ali."
"Fierce national competition over water resources has prompted fears that water issues contain the seeds of violent conflict."
"If you are drilling for water, it's better to drill one 60-foot well than 10 6-foot wells."
"We must get back into relation, vivid and nourishing relation to the cosmos and the universe. The way is through daily ritual, andis an affair of the individual and the household, a ritual of dawn and noon and sunset, the ritual of the kindling fire and pouring water, the ritual of the first breath, and the last."
"Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth. What you now call the free play of inquiry has neither more nor less to do with the ends for which intelligence was given you than masturbation has to do with marriage."
"Climate change, demographics, water, food, energy, global health, women's empowerment - these issues are all intertwined. We cannot look at one strand in isolation. Instead, we must examine how these strands are woven together."
"If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water."
