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"Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer concern the Great Powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by wind and water and fear, could well engulf the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the committed and the uncommitted alike. Mankind must put an end to war--or war will put an end to mankind."
"Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?"
"In California today, you may save more water by not eating a pound of beef than you would by not showering for six entire months."
"We have today to learn to get back into accord with the wisdom of nature and realize again our brotherhood with the animals and with the water and the sea."
"By forces seemingly antagonistic and destructive Nature accomplishes her beneficent designs - now a flood of fire, now a flood of ice, now a flood of water; and again in the fullness of time an outburst of organic life."
"Some of us who live in arid parts of the world think about water with a reverence others might find excessive."
"A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye."
"Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control."
"The voices of all creatures are in the voices of the river."
"One thing about which fish know exactly nothing is water, since they have no anti-environment which would enable them to perceive the element they live in."
"The old pond, ah! A frog jumps in: The water's sound."
"Breaking the silence Of an ancient pond, A frog jumped into water - A deep resonance."
"Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward."
"Living is being happy: seeing, hearing, touching, drinking, eating, urinating, defecating, diving into the water and gazing at the sky, laughing and crying."
"Our bread and water are of one table: the progeny of Adam are as a single soul."
"Even in decision-making, we work in self-help groups. That is women coming together in small groups of 10 to sometimes 15 women, where they start to get education about their rights, about clean water and sanitation, about how to have a healthy birth. You can bring in all kinds of education to them that way."
"Access to a secure, safe and sufficient source of fresh water is a fundamental requirement for the survival, well-being and socio-economic development of all humanity. Yet, we continue to act as if fresh water were a perpetually abundant resource. It is not."
"Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time."
"In the middle of Siberia I guess there's a lake that big [ like the Great Lakes], but there are practically no other lakes that big with fresh water."
"Once you were a child. Once you knew what inquiry was for. There was a time when you asked questions because you wanted answers, and were glad when you had found them. Become a child again, even now... You have gone wrong. Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth."
