Quotes with fresh-water

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  • Bryant Gumbel This comes at a time when Republicans are looking to gut the Clean Water Act and also the Safe Drinking Water Act. What are our options? Are we now forced to boil water because bottled water is not an economically feasible option for a lot of people?
    Bryant Gumbel
    American television journalist and sportscaster (1948 - )
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  • Bill Frist This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Bono This moment in time will be remembered for three things: the war against terror, sure; the Internet, probably; and how we let an entire continent, Africa, burst into flames and stood around with water in cans.
    CNN Larry King Weekend (2002)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Bernard Malamud Thoreau gave an otherwise hidden passion and drew from woods and water the love affair with earth and sky he'd recorded in his journals.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Louise Erdrich Time is the water in which we live, and we breathe it like fish. ... Time pours into us and then pours out again. In between the two pourings we live our destiny.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Carlos Castaneda To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.
    Carlos Castaneda
    American author and anthropologist (1925 - 1998)
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  • C. V. Raman To an observer situated on the moon or on one of the planets, the most noticeable feature on the surface of our globe would no doubt be the large areas covered by oceanic water. The sunlit face of the earth would appear to shine by the light diffused back into space from the land and water-covered areas.
    C. V. Raman
    Indian physicist (1888 - 1970)
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  • Alan Watts To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Billy Tauzin Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.
    Billy Tauzin
    American lobbyist and politician (1943 - )
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  • Billy Gibbons Water doesn't hurt a vinyl record. Put it into a dishwasher and you're fine.
    Billy Gibbons
    American musician, record producer, and actor (1949 - )
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  • B. B. King Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • Joan Didion Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.
    Faceboek (2011)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.
    Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
    Hungarian physician and Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (1893 - 1986)
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  • Audrey Hepburn Water is life, and clean water means health.
    Audrey Hepburn
    British actress, model, dancer and humanitarian (1929 - 1993)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Water is the only drink for a wise man.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Napoleon Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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