Quotes 101 till 120 of 283.
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If we make a couple of discoveries here and there we need not believe things will go on like this for ever. Just as we hit water when we dig in the earth, so we discover the incomprehensible sooner or later.
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If you can't stand a little sacrifice and you can't stand a trip across the desert with limited water, we're never going to straighten this country out.
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If you have love, even plain cold water is sweet.
Wild Swans (2008) 38 -
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge''
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If you should leave me, my heart will turn to water and flood away.
The Passion (2007) 76 -
If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.
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Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
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In Canada pianos needed water. You opened up the back and left a full glass of water, and a month later the glass would be empty. Her father had told her about the dwarfs who drank only at pianos, never in bars.
De Engelse patient (2011) 67 -
In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.
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In the desert you celebrate nothing but water.
De Engelse patient (2011) 25 -
In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.
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Investigations during the last few decades have brought hydrogen instead of carbon, and instead of CO2 water, the mother of all life, into the foreground.
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Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Louisiana.
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Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.
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It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.
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It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.
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It is imperative to maintain portions of the wilderness untouched so that a tree will rot where it falls, a waterfall will pour its curve without generating electricity, a trumpeter swan may float on uncontaminated water - and moderns may at least see what their ancestors knew in their nerves and blood.
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It is true from early habit, one must make love mechanically as one swims; I was once very fond of both, but now as I never swim unless I tumble into the water, I don't make love till almost obliged.
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It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.
Æsop's Fables, Reflection -
It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
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