"If you would conquer Love, he must be fought At his first onslaught; sprinkle but a drop Of water, the new-kindled flame expires."
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"In sweet water there is a pleasure ungrudged by anyone."
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"Probably, the secret is to be less complicated. We of course love to make complications - look at the way we live. We have this tremendous amount of information, and probably it is really not so necessary. Maybe if you just drink water, you are kind to people and walk a little bit it's all done already. But we cannot resist this sophistication."
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"She turned her face seaward to gather in an impression of space and solitude, which the vast expanse of water, meeting and melting with the moonlit sky, conveyed to her excited fancy. As she swam she seemed to be reaching out for the unlimited in which to lose herself."
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"You cannot underestimate people's ability to spot a soulless, bureaucratic tactic a million miles away. It's a big reason why so many companies that have dipped a toe in social media waters have failed miserably."
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"The only water in the forest is the River."
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"Some molecules - ammonia, carbon dioxide, water - show up everywhere in the universe, whether life is present or not. But others pop up especially in the presence of life itself. Among the biomarkers in Earth's atmosphere are ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons from aerosol sprays, vapor from mineral solvents, escaped coolants from refrigerators and air conditioners, and smog from the burning of fossil fuels. No other way to read that list: sure signs of the absence of intelligence."
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"Where there's water on Earth, you find life as we know it. So if you find water somewhere else, it becomes a remarkable draw to look closer to see if life of any kind is there, even if it's bacterial, which would be extraordinary for the field of biology."
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"I am growing stronger. I am a stone being excavated by the slow passage of water; I am wood charred by a fire."
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"Time jumps. It leaps. It pours away like water through fingers."
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"Amazing how hope lives. Without air or water, with hardly anything at all to nurture it."
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"Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust."
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"Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and what service I was myself best fitted by nature to perform."
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"Water flows from high in the mountains Water runs deep in the Earth Miraculously, water comes to us, And sustains all life."
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"We have to look deeply at things in order to see. When a swimmer enjoys the clear water of the river, he or she should also be able to be the river."
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"Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship."
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"The dizzy rapture of starving. The power of needing nothing. By force of will I make myself the impossible sprite who lives on air, on water, on purity."
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"The internet in hotels should be free - and I really resent it when they charge you five dollars for a bottle of water beside your bed."
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"I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just... wouldn't have come up out of the water."
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"It's my motto for life. 'Walk slowly; drink lots of water."
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