"Water does not force its way."
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"The good leader carries water for his people."
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"The best way to live / is to be like water / For water benefits all things / and goes against none of them."
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"Water benefits the ten thousand things and does not oppose them."
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"Who is there who can make muddy waters clear? But if allowed to remain still, it will gradually clear itself."
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"There is nothing softer and weaker than water, and yet there is nothing better for attacking hard and strong things."
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"Obscure, like muddy waters."
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"Nothing on earth is so weak and yielding as water, but for breaking down the firm and strong it has no equal."
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"It's almost embarrassing how well-behaved I was, which is probably why I do things like spit water on myself onstage as an adult."
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"Ho! Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadillo! By water, wood and hill, by reed and willow, By fire, sun and moon, harken now and hear us! Come, Tom Bombadil, for our need is near us!"
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"I knew that danger lay ahead, of course; but I did not expect to meet it in our own Shire. Can't a hobbit walk from the Water to the River in peace?" "But it is not your own Shire," said Gildor. "Others dwelt here before hobbits were; and others will dwell here again when hobbits are no more. The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out."
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"We stand, as it were, on the shore, and see multitudes of our fellow beings struggling in the water, stretching forth their arms, sinking, drowning, and we are powerless to assist them."
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"The more bitter the desert experience, the sweeter the water of the oasis. The more I understand myself, the more effectively I can work with others."
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"I am her friend, and her tongue is in my mouth. I can speak her sentiments for her, though Ethel Waters can do very well indeed in speaking for herself."
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"I drive a hybrid, moving into an electric car. I only drink tap water, never consume food that's travelled."
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"Sometimes I’d get mad because things didn’t work out so well, I’d spoil a flapjack, or slip in the snowfield while getting water, or one time my shovel went sailing down into the gorge, and I’d be so mad I’d want to bite the mountaintops and would come in the shack and kick the cupboard and hurt my toe. But let the mind beware, though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious."
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"The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water."
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"When I ask for a water cress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it."
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"What is harder than stone? What more soft than water? Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it is hollowed by the wave."
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"By constant dripping, water hollows stone, A signet-ring from use alone grows thin, And the curved plowshare by soft earth is worn."
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