Quotes with water-tight

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  • Zhuang Zhou If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
    Zhuang Zhou
    Chinese philosopher (369 - 286)
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  • Bernie Sanders If we are serious about moving toward energy independence in a cost-effective way, we should invest in solar energy. If we are serious about cutting air and water pollution and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, we should invest in solar energy.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg 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.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • H. Ross Perot 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.
    H. Ross Perot
    American businessman & politician, founder EDS (1930 - 2019)
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  • Jung Chang If you have love, even plain cold water is sweet.
    Wild Swans (2008) 38
    Jung Chang
    Chinese-born British writer (1952 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge''
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Jeanette Winterson If you should leave me, my heart will turn to water and flood away.
    The Passion (2007) 76
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Aaron Carpenter If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes.
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  • Bruce Lee If you want to learn to swim jump into the water. On dry land no frame of mind is ever going to help you.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Anatole France Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Bobby Rahal In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.
    Bobby Rahal
    American auto racing driver (1953 - )
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  • Bob Riley In a time of tight budgets, difficult choices have to be made. We must make sure our very limited resources are spent on priorities. I believe we should have no higher priority than investing in our children's classrooms and in their future.
    Bob Riley
    American politician (1944 - )
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  • Michael Ondaatje 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
    Michael Ondaatje
    Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer (1943 - )
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  • Louis Nizer In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.
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  • Busy Philipps In high school I had some famously egregious fashion missteps. I was really out there in fashion, I think because I wanted attention. I would wear crazy patterns, skin-tight pants and giant platform shoes.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Michael Ondaatje In the desert you celebrate nothing but water.
    De Engelse patient (2011) 25
    Michael Ondaatje
    Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer (1943 - )
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  • Bill Kreutzmann In the very beginning we were a real tight family but now it's different. You know, toward the end, we had separate limos, stuff like that. It's hard to get six giant egos in the same place.
    Bill Kreutzmann
    American drummer (1946 - )
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  • Lao-Tzu 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.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Albert Szent-Gyorgyi 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.
    Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
    Hungarian physician and Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (1893 - 1986)
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  • Billy Tauzin 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.
    Billy Tauzin
    American lobbyist and politician (1943 - )
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