Quotes 201 till 220 of 247.
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Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as oil does above water.
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Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
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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.
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Venice, Italy, survives 365 days out of every year in water; New Orleans can survive a few days of water if it has to.
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Water doesn't hurt a vinyl record. Put it into a dishwasher and you're fine.
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Water from the white fountain didn't taste any better than from the black fountain.
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Water is important to people who do not have it, and the same is true of control.
Faceboek (2011) -
Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.
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Water is life, and clean water means health.
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Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
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Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
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We all like to congregate at boundary conditions. Where land meets water. Where earth meets air. Where bodies meet mind. Where space meets time. We like to be on one side, and look at the other.
The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time (2005) -
We have a shotgun we inherited from my father-in-law, a paranoid Englishman living in Texas. I have a .22 Marlin rifle, similar to the one Annie Oakley had, and my husband has a .357 Magnum pistol. All those are locked up tight, of course. We have a couple of pellet guns that get more use than the real guns.
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We have a wretched motley crew, in the fleet; the marines the refuse of every regiment, and the seamen, few of them, ever wet with salt water.
Letter to General Gates (21 September 1776), in Battle of Valcour on Lake Champlain, October 11th, 1776 by Peter Sailly Palmer(1876) p. 5 -
We shall not defeat any of the infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for safe drinking water, sanitation, and basic health care.
Faceboek (2017) -
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
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Well, the memories were obviously - every match is important, every point counts, especially the last sort of 18, 20 years when the matches have been so tight.
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What a woman says to her avid lover should be written in wind and running water.
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