"Running water never grows stale."
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"When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there's a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life."
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"I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir."
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"Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend."
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"Thirst drove me down to the water where I drank the moon's reflection."
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"A river is more than an amenity, it is a treasure."
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"When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, 'What is the sound of the waterfall?' 'Silence,' he finally told me."
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"Emptiness the starting point. — In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop all your preconceived and fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is useful? Because it is empty."
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"Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings."
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"I watched the piles of feces go up the conveyor belt... They made their way through the machine... A few minutes later I took a long taste of the end result: a glass of delicious drinking water."
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"Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves."
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"Natural gas has been sold as clean energy. But when the gas comes from fracturing bedrock with about five million gallons of toxic water per well, the word “clean” takes on a disturbingly Orwellian tone. Don’t be fooled. Fracking for shale gas is in truth dirty energy."
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"Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it."
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"A drop of water is as powerful as a thunder-bolt."
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"Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions."
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"Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone."
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"In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree."
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"The very right to be human is denied every day to hundreds of millions of people as a result of poverty, the unavailability of basic necessities such as food, jobs, water and shelter, education, health care and a healthy environment."
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"I'm a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!"
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"There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried."
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