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Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Zombies let us explore notions of the apocalypse - no water, food, medical care, the government impl...

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If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions...

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I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That's where I belong.

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does ab...

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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above wat...

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The buckets emptied quickly, and men from different squads took turns bringing water from the gully ...

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Mikhail BulgakovThe Master and Margarita

A society should never become like a pond with stagnant water, without movement. That's the most imp...

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My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.

I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from hol...

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Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just a...

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I drive a hybrid, moving into an electric car. I only drink tap water, never consume food that's tra...

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Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.

And Pearl, stepping in, mid-leg deep, beheld her own white feet at the bottom, while out of a still ...

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Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

Even in the developing parts of the world, kids take to computers like fish to water.

It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.

Happiness is a simple everyday miracle, like water, and we are not aware of it.

We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water,...

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Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's...

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Norman MacleanA River Runs Through It and Other Stories

Thanks to the centrifugal pump, places like Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas had thrown on the ...

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Jesus walked on water, so maybe he makes aquifers, too.

You can't change the world you can't fix the whole environment. But you can recycle. You can turn th...

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Some of the natural world is appealing, some of it is terrifying, and some of it grosses us out. Mod...

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Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My p...

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A letter from a French cleric to Nicholas of St. Albans, written c. 1178, rehearsed what was already...

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Peter AckroydAlbion: The Origins of the English Imagination

She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job li...

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The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

The water in a vessel is sparkling the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are...

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Eventually man, too, found his way back to the sea. Standing on its shores, he must have looked out ...

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The rain continued. It was a hard rain, a perpetual rain, a sweating and steaming rain; it was a miz...

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And what lights the sun? Its own fire. And the sun goes on, day after day, burning and burning. The ...

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I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my h...

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She poured us some more Scotch. It didn't seem to affect her any more than water affects Boulder Dam...

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My sperm came out into the water, unaccustomed to the light, and instantly it became a misty, string...

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Richard BrautiganTrout Fishing in America

The reason we personify things like cars and computers is that just as monkeys live in an arboreal w...

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Even if you believe a creator god invented the laws of physics, would you so insult him as to sugges...

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Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.

Clean water is a great example of something that depends on energy. And if you solve the water probl...

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When you're in the editing room, the dangerous thing is that it becomes like telling a joke again an...

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But give thanks, at least, that you still have Frost's poems; and when you feel the need of solitude...

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I want clean water and clean air and conservation... that's not what extreme environmentalists are a...

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We've gotten so far away from our food source. It's been hijacked from us. But if you get soil, plan...

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If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. W...

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The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and ed...

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Before we were born we had no feeling; we were one with the universe. This is called "mind-only," or...

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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell...

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There was an ocean above us, held in by a thin sac that might rupture and let down a flood at any se...

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Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions.

I never feel so much myself as when I'm in a hot bath.I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of ...

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There is no water, so things are bad. If there were water, it would be better. But there is no water...

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T. S. EliotThe Waste Land and Other Poems

I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull ...

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...Human beings, little bags of thinking water held up briefly by fragile accumulations of calcium.....

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Reasoning with a drunkard is likeGoing under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.

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ThiruvalluvarHoly Kural - Thirukkural in Tamil with English Translations

Dwellers by the sea are generally superstitious sailors always are. There is something in the illimi...

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The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly m...

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Although the surface of our planet is two-thirds water, we call it the Earth. We say we are earthlin...

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Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streakin...

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On the sea he wished to meet it, if meet it he must. He was not sure why this was, yet he had a terr...

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With ceremony, with forms of politeness and reassurance, they borrowed the waters of the River and i...

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A harsh crack followed the rumble of thunder, a lightning strike. With that, the other musicians beg...

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I fit my mouth to his and he tastes like water and smells like fresh air. I drag my hand from his ne...

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For me to go to America - which I find such a positive place - well, I took to it like a duck to wat...

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It's too short,' she said, 'ever so much too short.' Never did anybody look so sad. Bitter and black...

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Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live...

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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature o...

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The man I am writing about is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his l...

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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade thro...

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Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.

In Kenya women are the first victims of environmental degradation, because they are the ones who wal...

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When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya,...

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Dip him in the river who loves water.

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William BlakeThe Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.

The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.

You are waterI’m waterwe’re all water in different containersthat’s why it’s so easy to meetsomeday ...

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Greeting cards routinely tell us that everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. N...

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When a man does not dwell in self, then things will of themselves reveal their forms to him. His mov...

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ZhuangziThe Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

Oh fair enough are sky and plain,But I know fairer far:Those are as beautiful againThat in the water...

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When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and t...

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By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.

People today have forgotten they're really just a part of nature. Yet, they destroy the nature on wh...

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There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood ...

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One of my favorite beauty products is Vincent Longo Water Canvas creamy blush. I have it in every co...

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The beauty of Maine is such that you can't really see it clearly while you live there. But now that ...

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War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, a...

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A seed cannot grow in stone. It requires fertile soil & water. Compassion is the soil where life gro...

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People imagine that missing a loved one works kind of like missing cigarettes. The first day is real...

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It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether...

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I watch the running sheets of light raised on the creek surface. The sight has the appeal of the pur...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion...

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Annie DillardTeaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

Water is life, and clean water means health.