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• I watch her as she leaves. Everything about her is fluid as a river. Her messy hair, her xylophone voice, the strokes of her paintbrush. Even her camouflage army jacket hangs loose, flowing like ribbons.

  Lisa Ann Sandell

  Army, Hair, Voice

  Lisa Ann Sandell (2011). “A Map of the Known World”, p.217, Scholastic Inc.

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• I drove off, with my friends watching me go, all of them grouped on Lissa's hood. As I pulled onto the road, I glanced into the rearview and saw them: they were waving, hands moving through the air, their voices loud, calling out after me. The square of that mirror was like a frame, holding this picture of them saying good-bye, pushing me forward, before shifting gently out of sight, inch by fluid inch, as I turned away.

  Sarah Dessen

  Moving, Squares, Mirrors

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.223, Penguin

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• They have eliminated rigidity, both physical and psychological, in order to support more fluid processes whereby temporary teams are created to deal with specific and ever-changing needs. They have simplified roles into minimal categories; they have knocked down walls and created workplaces where people, ideas, and information circulate freely.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Leadership, Wall, Work

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Leadership and the New Science: Discovering Order in a Chaotic World”, p.88, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It's so much baby and so much amniotic fluid, it's crazy. If we have a 10 pounder, pray for me!

  Jessica Simpson

  Baby, Crazy, Pregnancy

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• There are two kinds of people. One kind, you can just tell by looking at them at what point they congealed into their final selves. It might be a very nice self, but you know you can expect no more surprises from it. Whereas, the other kind keep moving, changing... They are fluid. They keep moving forward and making new trysts with life, and the motion of it keeps them young. In my opinion, they are the only people who are still alive. You must be constantly on your guard against congealing.

  Gail Godwin

  Nice, Moving Forward, Two

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• Are you jealous of the ocean’s generosity? Why would you refuse to give this joy to anyone? Fish don’t hold the sacred liquid in cups! They swim the huge fluid freedom.

  Rumi

  Ocean, Jealous, Generosity

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• HEART, n. Figuratively, this useful organ is said to be the seat of emotions and sentiments . . . . It is now known that sentiments and emotions reside in the stomach, being evolved from food by chemical action of the gastric fluid.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Heart, Action, Emotion

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.116, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It must be that there is something in the hearts of human beings, some natural fluid perhaps, that insists on happiness, even confronted with the most powerful arguments against it.

  Ben H. Winters

  Powerful, Heart, Argument

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• A garden should be in a constant state of fluid change, expansion, experiment, adventure; above all it should be an inquisitive, loving, but self-critical journey on the part of its owner.

  H. E. Bates

  Change, Time, Adventure

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• Remember, your body needs 6 to 8 glasses of fluid daily. Straight up or on the rocks.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Drinking, Health

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “The Bachelor Home Companion: A Practical Guide to Keeping House Like a Pig”, p.57, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Gee, what a terrific party. Later on we'll get some fluid and embalm each other.

  Neil Simon

  Funny, Sarcastic, Party

  Neil Simon (1979). “The collected plays of Neil Simon”, Plume Books

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• Life is movement. The more life there is, the more flexibility there is. The more fluid you are, the more you are alive.

  Arnaud Desjardins

  Buddhism, Suffering, Movement

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• Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by experiment. The same thing is true in every case of the kind: wine and all fluids that evaporate and condense back into a liquid state become water. They all are water modified by a certain admixture, the nature of which determines their flavour.

  Aristotle

  Sweet, Wine, Science

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.582, Princeton University Press

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• Beer has long been the prime lubricant in our social intercourse and the sacred throat-anointing fluid that accompanies the ritual of mateship. To sink a few cold ones with the blokes is both an escape and a confirmation of belonging.

  Rennie Ellis

  Food, Beer, Long

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• ...the computer models are very good at solving equations of fluid dynamics but very bad at describing the real world. The real world is full of things like clouds and vegetation and soil and dust which the models describe very poorly.

  Freeman Dyson

  Real, Dust, Clouds

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• Indeed, nowadays no electrical engineer could get along without complex numbers, and neither could anyone working in aerodynamics or fluid dynamics.

  Keith Devlin

  Teaching, Math, Aerodynamics

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• Now we see evolutionary trends in a variety of areas ranging from atomic and molecular physics through fluid mechanics, chemistry and biology to large scale systems of relevance in environmental and economic sciences

  Ilya Prigogine

  Environmental, Trends, Chemistry

  Ilya Prigogine (2003). “Is Future Given?”, p.22, World Scientific

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• This junkyard is an environmental nightmare, strewn with tree stumps, old tires, derelict vehicles, scrap metal and other waste. This owner may be failing to properly dispose of vehicle fluids and other contaminating chemical-laden trash, possibly imperiling groundwater and wells. He is junking the law as well as the environment.

  Richard Blumenthal

  Law, Tree, Environmental

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• An immune system of enormous complexity is present in all vertebrate animals. When we place a population of lymphocytes from such an animal in appropriate tissue culture fluid, and when we add an antigen, the lymphocytes will produce specific antibody molecules, in the absense of any nerve cells. I find it astonishing that the immune system embodies a degree of complexity which suggests some more or less superficial though striking analogies with human language, and that this cognitive system has evolved and functions without assistance of the brain.

  Niels Kaj Jerne

  Animal, Cells, Brain

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• Time is so...fluid where I live

  Janet Morris

  Time, Ontology

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.160, Paradise Publishing

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• Psychiatry's a young science. Yesterday's madman may be tomorrow's genius. Beethoven and Van Gogh were both a bit loopy. In my view, most madmen are remarkable. They're explorers, travelers beyond the rim of consciousness. Not surprising if they pick up a few bugs and get sick. That's all it is, madness. Mad just means sick. If you get fluid on the lungs it's pleurisy. If it's fluid on the brain, it's insanity.

  Clare Boylan

  Depression, Mean, Yesterday

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• Perhaps all women are part faerie, for what woman can deny her faerie blood when the portals to her own land are open; when the full moon sings its insistent song; when sorrow and passion and rage pulse through her body at moon times. This is why women are the chosen ones of Faerie, pat of the vibrant, fluid, emotional soul of the world.

  Brian Froud

  Song, Passion, Moon

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• Anytime that is ‘betwixt and between’ or transitional is the faeries’ favorite time. They inhabit transitional spaces: the bottom of the garden, existing in a space between manmade cultivation and wilderness. Look for them in the space between nurture and nature, they are to be found at all boarders and boundaries, or on the edges of water where it is neither land nor lake, neither path nor pond. They come when we are half-asleep. They come at moments when we least expect them; when our rational mind balances with the fluid irrational.

  Brian Froud

  Garden, Lakes, Land

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• I hate to take showers! Guitarists don't like showers 'cause we like the grease to build up on our fingers, makes playing more fluid.

  Izzy Stradlin

  Hate, Grease, Causes

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• My advice to you: live in the moment. Stay fluid and roll with those changes. Life is just a big extended improvisation. Embrace the ever changing, ever evolving world with the best rule I’ve ever found. Say 'YES AND.”

  Jane Lynch

  Life Changing, Advice, Live In The Moment

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