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The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.
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The English have a miraculous power to turn wine into water.
His Life and Wit -
The friendship we share grows amidst the craggy rock pond; reeds of water spray fireflies scented with bonfires.
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The idea that we are not going to look after the Great Barrier Reef, which is just a wonderful tourism resource that it can be just for one example - we are not going to look after it, we won't have tight environment regulation, is frankly just not true.
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The immediate, highest priority need, in my humble opinion, is that we build quickly the interim structures that can channel water away from population and businesses in the New Orleans area.
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The king-times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end. I shall not live to see it, but I foresee it.
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The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have.
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The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
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The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.
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The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
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The Niagara Falls? Simply a vast unnecessary amount of water going the wrong way and then falling over unnecessary rocks.
In Oscar Wilde, His Life and Wit (1946) -
The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.
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The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water.
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The real antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.
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The sea was at the bottom of my road, and I seemed to spend my childhood in it or on it, hearing, tasting, smelling it. Now, still, I need to be near water as often as possible.
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The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
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The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean.... Recently, we've managed to wade a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting.
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990) 03 min 55 sec -
The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.
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