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It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water; also ...

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Jim watched them eat, his eyes fixed on every morsel that entered their mouth. When the oldest of th...

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It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than i...

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Christ hath instituted Baptism as a bath, to wash away the anger, and hath put into us the Noble Sto...

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The air that people breathe in many Chinese cities has become dangerously polluted. Their food suppl...

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A girl stood before him in midstream, alone and still, gazing out to sea. She seemed like one whom m...

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James JoyceA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give.

What is more dramatic, even romantic, than the tumbled towers of lower Manhattan, rising suddenly to...

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Jane JacobsThe Death and Life of Great American Cities

New Yorkers only cross water for visual culture if the water is an ocean. The East River throws us f...

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Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and...

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Okay, fluoride in the water to help our teeth. Well, shouldn't that be the job of your mom and dad? ...

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Let's swim to the moonLet's climb through the tideSurrender to the waiting worldsThat lap against ou...

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To find the universal elements enough to find the air and the water exhilarating to be refreshed by ...

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The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the ...

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Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go q...

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Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easi...

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In the Arctic, the Inuit are saying water and land are the same; they're an unbroken unity. In the w...

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Good words cool more than cold water.

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in phi...

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Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.

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Jonathan HaidtThe Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

I always adhered to the idea that God is time, or at least that His spirit is... In any case, I alwa...

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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a cont...

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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousa...

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[Jellyfish] are 97% water or something, so how much are they doing? Just give them another 3% and ma...

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I have a ridiculous fear of sharks but I'd jump in the water in a second for an amazing role.

The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over ...

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The sea is a desert of waves,A wilderness of water.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

This is a silly place. Half the world has no clean water. The other half has so much that they pooh ...

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It came out sparkling like liquid sky.

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire...

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In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes...

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Water is the driving force in nature.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

I wish I hadn't cried so much!" said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. "I shall ...

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Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

I always tell people, anger is like liquid. It's fluid, it's like water. You put it in a container a...

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The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon wo...

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Lords of blue and Lords of gold,Lords of wind and waters wild,Lords of time that's growing old,When ...

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Lords of fire and earth and water,Lords of moon and wind and sky,Come now to the Old Man's daughter,...

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Madeleine L'EngleA Swiftly Tilting Planet

Technology is like water; it wants to find its level. So if you hook up your computer to a billion o...

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Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Wat...

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Good food, fresh water, and an occasional sweet and someone to care for. That's what everyone should...

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High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

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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