"Beer is an improvement on water itself."
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"Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over."
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"Well, me don't swim too tough so me don't go in the water too deep."
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"It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters."
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"If water stands motionless in a pool it grows stale and muddy, but when it moves and flows it becomes clear: so, too, man in his wanderings."
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"If you cast your bread upon the water and you have faith, you'll get back cash. If you don't have faith, you'll get soggy bread."
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"If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, just hand out to anyone."
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"A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees."
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"Have patience. Wait until the mud settles and the water is clear. Remain unmoving until right action arises by itself."
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"Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes - one for peace and one for science."
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"Knowledge does not grow like a tree where you dig a hole, plant your feet, cover them with dirt, and pour water on them daily. Knowledge grows with time, work, and dedicated effort. It cannot come by any other means."
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"Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent."
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"Overall, rocks, wood and water, brooded the spirit of repose, and the silent energy of nature stirred the soul to its innermost depths."
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"When you like a flower, you just pluck it. But when you love a flower, you water it daily."
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"People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned."
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"Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still water."
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"Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shore of silence or where the storm has passed rampaging like a train. There the faint signs are left, coins of time and water, debris ,celestial ash and the irreplaceable rapture of sharing in the labour of soitude in the sand."
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"What frightened me was the logic of the world; in it lay the foretaste of something incalculably powerful. Its mechanism was incomprehensible, and I could not possibly remain closeted in that windowless, bone-chilling room. Though outside lay the sea of irrationality, it was far more agreeable to swim in its waters until presently I drowned."
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"God, help me to see others not as enemies or as ungodly but rather as thirsty people. And give me the courage and compassion to offer your Living Water, which alone quenches deep thirst."
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"Thoughts are like drops of water: with our thoughts we can drown in a sea of negativity, or we can float on the ocean of life."
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