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~ Anyone who says they are not interested in politics is like a drowning man who insists he is not interested in water. ~

Unknown

~ Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint. ~

Samuel Butler

~ Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong ~

Lao-Tzu

~ Man [has] always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reason. ~

Douglas Adams

~ The people are like water and the ruler a boat. Water can support a boat or overturn it. ~

William Shakespeare

~ After all, this is a world of rock and water and air. It is elemental. It is not ours. ~

Janet Kauffman

~ We never know the worth of water till the well is dry. ~

Thomas Fuller

~ Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man. ~

Stewart Udall

~ Water is finite and we have not done a great job of managing it in the past. ~

Sandra Postel

~ Excitement is the drunkenness of the spirits. Only calm waters reflect heaven in their bosom. ~

Marguerite de Valois

~ Among these treasures of our land is water--fast becoming our most valuable, most prized, most critical resource. A blessing where properly used--but it can bring devastation and ruin when left uncontrolled. ~

Dwight D. Eisenhower

~ Kissing is like drinking salted water: you drink and your thirst increases ~

Chinese Proverb

~ Kissing is like drinking salted water: you drink and your thirst increases ~

Chinese Proverbs

~ Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny. ~

Carl Schurz

~ No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. ~

Horace

~ To keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom, and keep our mind strong and clear. Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals. ~

Buddha

~ Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. ~

Oliver Wendell Holmes

~ Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny. ~

Carl Schurz

~ In an underdeveloped country, don't drink the water; in a developed country, don't breathe the air. ~

Changing Times magazine

~ Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it. ~

Eliza Tabor

~ I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term -- meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching -- there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster. ~

Ansel Adams

~ I took to photography like a duck to water. I never wanted to do anything else. Excitement about the subject is the voltage which pushes me over the mountain of drudgery necessary to produce the final photograph. ~

Berenice Abbott

~ Rice is born in water and must die in wine ~

Italian Proverb

~ Rice is born in water and must die in wine ~

Italian Proverb

~ Fish, to taste right, must swim three times - in water, in butter, and in wine ~

Polish Proverb

~ Fish, to taste right, must swim three times - in water, in butter, and in wine ~

Polish Proverb

~ Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend ~

Bruce Lee

~ Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you ~

Charlie Brown

~ Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream. Water them with optimism and solutions and you will cultivate success. Always be on the lookout for ways to turn a problem into an opportunity for success. Always be on the lookout for ways to nurture your dream ~

Lao Tzu

~ Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy. ~

Napoleon Bonaparte

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