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Neighborhoods and communities are complex organisms that will be resilient only if they are healthy ...

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If we are serious about moving toward energy independence in a cost-effective way, we should invest ...

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In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an...

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Imagine trying to live in a world dominated by dihydrogen oxide, a compound that has no taste or sme...

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Bill BrysonA Short History of Nearly Everything

That's not water. That's socialism juice. We should bomb Lake Erie.

Stockholm is unique in that it's built on islands and surrounded by water, so you get this enormous ...

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An old Russian folk song is like water held back by a dam. It looks as if it were still and were no ...

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Each time I came crashing down into the ocean porpoiselike, water hit my face like the slap of a jil...

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It is difficult to find anything more healthy to drink than good cold water, such as flows down to u...

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Brigham YoungJournal of Discourses

Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you ...

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Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Be water, my friend.

If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the wa...

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When we carry out our "religious duties" we are like people digging channels in a waterless land, in...

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C. S. LewisReflections on the Psalms

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and ...

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You don't know what thirst is until you drink for the first time.

But maybe you never really had someone, she thought now. Maybe, no matter how much you loved them, t...

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In the deepest places, where physical norms collapse under the crushing water, bodies still fall sof...

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A mile below the lowest cloud, rock breaches water and the sea begins.It has been given many names. ...

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Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affec...

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Up the coast a few miles north, in a lava reef under the cliffs, there are a lot of rock pools. You ...

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Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

We're not going to cure terrorism and spread peace and goodwill in the Middle East by killing innoce...

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Instead of drifting away from God, you'll be firmly anchored, able to swim against the tide, offerin...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Young people today are deeply passionate and crave authentic life based on truth. They're hungry to ...

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.

I write longhand on legal pads, about half at home and half in cafes. I drink a lot of water and eat...

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The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.

I'm an instant star. Just add water and stir.

At dawn the waves looked like mountain ranges tipped with gold as sunbeams slanted low under burgund...

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It's not unexpected that shooting massive amounts of water, sand, and chemicals at high pressure int...

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The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from oute...

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Beyond reducing individual use, one of our top priorities must be to move from fossil fuels to energ...

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If we pollute the air, water and soil that keep us alive and well, and destroy the biodiversity that...

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How language is webbed in the senses. Out of sand-blazed brilliance into quirky minds such as his, i...

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It's unpleasantly like being drunk." "What's so unpleasant about being drunk?" "You ask a glass of w...

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Douglas AdamsThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

In Canada, when we speak of water, we're speaking of ourselves. Canadians are known to be unextravag...

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I always run in the morning on an empty stomach, and I'll go through a bottle and a half of water. T...

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For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),It's always our self we find in the sea.

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E. E. Cummings100 Selected Poems

So never give in,” continued the girl, and restated again and again the vague yet convincing plea th...

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He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was ...

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A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they ha...

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It took the mountain top, it seems to me now, to give me the sensation of independence. It was as if...

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The true scientist no longer attempts to disprove the pull of gravity, or the rotation of the earth,...

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Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, p...

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F. Scott FitzgeraldTender Is the Night

My soul is a black maelstrom, a great madness spinning about a vacuum, the swirling of a vast ocean ...

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Praised be my Lord, for our sister water.St. Francis of Assisi,Canticle of the Sun

Move slowly and the day of your revenge will come," Tuek said. "Speed is a device of Shaitan. Cool y...

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God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comf...

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Water is sufficient...the spirit moves over water.

And he who would not languish among men, must learn to drink out of all glasses; and he who would ke...

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Sugar-free ice pops are an invention of God. They hardly have any calories since they're mostly wate...

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That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive...

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There is no water in oxygen, no water in hydrogen: it comes bubbling fresh from the imagination of t...

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In the deep sands a man must hoard his water.

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George R. R. MartinA Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is w...

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I have an immoderate passion for water; for the sea, though so vast, so restless, so beyond one's co...

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Guy de MaupassantThe House of Madame Tellier and Other Stories

When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes...

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When the young womanleans over the sky,about to water the flowers as well as the weeds,her white fro...

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Charities are now working to give people in poor countries access to the Internet. But shouldn't we ...

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One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps ...

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All you have to do is wait. Sit tight and wait for the right moment. Not try to change anything by f...

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I could feel a small polished stone sinking through the darkest waters of my heart. All those deep c...

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The early autumn sun glinted on the water, an enormous mirror ground to powder and scattered.

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Haruki MurakamiHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

Being all alone is like the feeling you get when you stand at the mouth of a large river on a rainy ...

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Life in us is like the water in a river.

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water w...

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The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and...

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For the moment I can think of nothing— except that I am a sentient being stabbed by the miracle of t...

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We're at peak oil, peak water, peak resources, and so either we figure it out and let science lead o...

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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or i...

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Call me Ishmael. Some years ago--never mind how long precisely--having little or no money in my purs...

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Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the riv...

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They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, t...

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Never wade through the pretty ripples of perpetually flowing rivers, until you have looked at their ...

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HesiodHesiod: The Works and Days/Theogony/The Shield of Herakles

No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.

Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if that's all you've got, you're dead in the water. It's ...

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Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there's a current and just stare into the wat...

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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.