"Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?"
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"Even a really bad creator would at least have started with Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Surprise."
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"I imagine that fish have no word for water."
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"He found that he had this sudden desperate longing for the fuming, smoky streets of Ankh-Morpork, which was always at its best in the spring, when the gummy sheen on the turbid waters of the Ankh River had a special iridescence and the eaves were full of birdsong, or at least birds coughing rhythmically"
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"I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions."
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"The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green."
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"If I'm sending emails, and I get all wound up and stressed and don't know what to do with myself for 20 minutes, I just go soak in hot water and lie there, thinking, 'What should I do?' So it's meditative."
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"Life is more than matter. If it were just matter, there would be no need for comfort. Matter does not feel comfort or discomfort, beauty or ugliness, love or compassion, joy or sorrow. Will a chair ever feel sorry or happy? No, matter does not have these finer values. They belong to the realm of the spirit. But life is also more than spirit. If it were just spirit, there would be no need for water, food, or rest. Human life is a combination of both matter and spirit."
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"Do you want to sell sugar water all your life, or do you want to come with me and change the world?"
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"Vacuum stands and remains a mathematical space. A cube placed in a vacuum would not displace anything, as it would displace air or water in a space already containing those fluids."
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"The body is only a tool of the mind. What the mind dictates the body will have to obey. Now I do not even think of water. I do not miss it at all.... I see I can do anything."
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"Each nation has a main current in life; in India it is religion. Make it strong and the waters on either side must move along with it."
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"You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans."
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"Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. In the depths there is a spring with all the water your heart is thirsty for."
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"Nothing can help me but that beauty. There was a dawn I remember when my soul heard something from your soul. I drank water from your spring and felt the current take me."
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"Wash the dust from your SOUl and HEART with wisdom's WATER."
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"When water is still like a mirror it can behold the Moon."
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"Love is the water of life, jump into this water."
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"I am not worried, Harry," said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. "I am with you."
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"It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water."
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