"The world needs water. For every bottle of wine you drink you contribute to conserving the drinking water reserves."
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"When I first heard Elvis perform "Bridge Over Trouble Water" it was unbelivable,and I thought to myself, how the hell can I compete with that?"
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"You are nipping in the bud fancies which I let blossom. The shore is safer, but I love to buffet the sea - I can count the bitter wrecks here in these pleasant waters, and hear the murmuring winds, but oh, I love the danger!"
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"It appeared as if I had invited the audience into the water with me, and it conveyed the sensation that being in there was absolutely delicious"
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"We are all bodies of water, guarding the mystery of our depths, but some of us have more to guard than others."
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""What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "Ask a glass of water.""
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"When you drink of the water, don't forget the spring from which it flows."
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"Given the scope of the tragedy from last week, I am glad to reassure the people of New York and Washington, D.C. that their air is safe to breath and their water is safe to drink."
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"Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It's wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane."
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"The Master said, “What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and water—other people could not have borne such hardship, and yet it never spoiled Hui’s joy. What a worthy man was Hui!” (Analects 6.11)"
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"Stir not murky waters if you know not the depth or the creatures that dwell beneath the surface."
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"What is significant in one's own existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not bother the other fellow. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?"
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"A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out."
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"When I was a child, if someone had talked to me about buying water, I would have thought it was a joke."
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"[Dawn] is always such a forgiving time. When that first cold, bright streak comes over the water, it's as if all our sins were pardoned; as if the sky leaned over the earth and kissed it and gave it absolution."
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"Dip him in the river who loves water."
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"People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass."
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"The procedure has a strange Alice-in-Wonderland quality. The reservoir was created as a public water supply, yet the community, probably unconsulted about the sportsmen's project, is forced either to drink water containing poisonous residues or to pay our tax money for treatment of the water to remove the poisons - treatments that are by no means foolproof."
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"If I want only pure water, what does it matter to me whether it be brought in a vase of gold or of glass? What is it to me whether the will of God be presented to me in tribulation or consolation, since I desire and seek only the Divine will?"
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"I believe, sir, in all the progress. Air navigation is the result of the oceanic navigation: from water the human has to pass in the air. Everywhere where creation will be breathable to him, the human will penetrate into the creation. Our only limit is life."
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