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Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

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You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

W. C. Fields

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I never drink water. I'm afraid it will become habit-forming.

W. C. Fields

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In a traditional Japanese or Chinese garden, it's not only about the building or temple but about the whole setup — the structure, the landscape, the light, the plants, the water. The whole experience that makes your life there so beautiful.

Ma Yansong

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This legislation confronts the human truth that the need for clean water knows no borders, and proper management and intervention can be a currency for peace and international cooperation.

Bill Frist

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I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course Isaac Newton being hit on the head with an apple. In other words, this realm of human knowledge — which is mathematical, essentially — can have a playful visual element to it.

James Marsh

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Water is life, and clean water means health.

Audrey Hepburn

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All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

Josh Billings

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For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.

Chief Joseph

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I'm always thirsty when I wake up, so I guzzle a bottle of Smart water before I scramble tofu with onions, peppers and spinach and top it with salsa. I've been a vegetarian for years, but I recently became vegan.

Carrie Underwood

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I treat myself pretty good. I take lots of vacations, I eat well, I take supplements, I do mercury detox, I get plenty of sleep, I drink plenty of water and I stay away from drama and stress.

Reba McEntire

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Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

John Muir

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We provoke a shark every time we enter the water where sharks happen to be, for we forget: The ocean is not our territory — it's theirs.

Peter Benchley

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Once I showed up at my sister's with a baby rabbit I had bought from some children because its ears were cold. I put the rabbit on a hot water bottle and massaged its ears for quite a while. After all, I knew that all healthy animals had warm ears.

Juliette Gordon Low

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You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!

Sai Baba

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Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

W. C. Fields

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When a country wants television more than they want clean water, they've lost their grip.

Lewis Black

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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.

John W. Gardner

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Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.

David Ricardo

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