"I just try to love and serve everyone, and bring everyone water, and lend an ear; that's what Jesus said to do."
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"You do not explain the tree by telling of the water it has drunk, the minerals it has absorbed, and the sunlight that strengthened it."
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"The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little."
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"I was like a packet of powdered Sea Monkeys and they were like water."
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"Education and water should be a human right."
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"The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest."
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"Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered."
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"Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught."
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"Glory is like a circle in the water"
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"I pray thee cease thy counsel, Which falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve."
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"It occurs to me one evening as I'm feeding the birds that all I did was put two birds in the aviary, some food and water and nothing else and now there are six of them. I know this is perfectly natural, it's one of the things life is all about, but to have it happen in my bedroom, under my own eyes, is magic."
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"Nothing is wasted in the sea; every particle of material is used over and over again, first by one creature, then by another. And when in spring the waters are deeply stirred, the warm bottom water brings to the surface a rich supply of minerals, ready for use by new forms of life."
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"He was beyond gorgeous. But Eastlake High was full of pretty people who acted like total freaks. I blame the local water supply. Which was why I drank bottled water."
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"We live in media, as fish live in water."
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"The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand."
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"Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not."
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"You cannot lecture on really pure poetry any more than you can talk about the ingredients of pure water-it is adulterated, methylated, sanded poetry that makes the best lectures."
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"A writer should give direct certainty; explanations are so much water poured into the wine."
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"The Martians were there - in the canal - reflected in the water.... The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling water."
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"I've always been freaked out in deep open water if there's a potential of sharks around."
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