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• Some sang too that Thror and Thrain would come back one day and gold would flow in rivers, through the mountain-gates, and all that land would be filled with new song and new laughter. But this pleasant legend did not much affect their daily business.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Song, Laughter, Land

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There's a house across the river, but alas, I cannot swim
  I'll live my life regretting that I never jumped in

  Laura Marling

  Regret, House, Swim

  Song: Alas I Cannot Swim, 2008

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• Thunder is no longer the voice of an angry god... No river contains a spirit... no snake the embodiment of wisdom, no mountain cave the home of a great demon. No voices now speak to man from stones, plants and animals, nor does he speak to them thinking they can hear. His contact with nature has gone, and with it has gone the profound emotional energy that this symbolic connection supplied.

  Carl Jung

  Home, Animal, Men

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• They also live
  Who swerve and vanish in the river.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Swerve

  Archibald MacLeish (1985). “Collected Poems, 1917-1982”, p.412, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Too many whites are getting away with drug use... Too many whites are getting away with drug sales... The answer is to go out and find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them and send them up the river, too.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Stupid, Drug Use, Answers

  "The Rush Limbaugh Show", October 5, 1995.

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• George Foreman. A miracle. A mystery to myself. Who am I? The mirror says back. The George you was always meant to be. Wasn't always like that. Used to look in the mirror and cried a river.

  George Foreman

  Mirrors, Miracle, Looks

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• We like to put sacred texts in flowing waters, so I rolled it up, tied it to a piece of wood, placed a dandelion on top, and floated it in the stream which flows into the Swat River. Surely God would find it there.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Water, Pieces, Woods

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• Everything changes but change itself. Everything flows and nothing remains the same... You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet others go flowing ever on.

  Heraclitus

  Water, Flow, Steps

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• When you were born, the rivers dried up and the cattle in Rockingham County wept blood.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Blood, Born, County

  Maggie Stiefvater (2013). “The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle, Book 2)”, p.8, Scholastic Inc.

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• Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will; Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!

  William Wordsworth

  Sweet, Lying, Heart

  1802 Of London. 'Composed upon Westminster Bridge', Complete poem. (Published 1807).

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• For arousing compassion, the nineteenth-century yogi Patrul Rinpoche suggested imagining beings in torment - an animal about to be slaughtered, a person awaiting execution. To make it more immediate, he recommended imagining ourselves in their place. Particularly painful is his image of a mother with no arms watching as a raging river sweeps her child away. To contact the suffering of another being fully and directly is as painful as being in the woman's shoes.

  Pema Chodron

  Mother, Children, Animal

  Pema Chodron (2002). “The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times”, p.65, Shambhala Publications

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• A Christian state should be established [in Lebanon], with its southern border on the Litani river. We will make an alliance with it. When we smash the Arab Legion's strength and bomb Amman, we will eliminate Transjordan too, and then Syria will fall. If Egypt still dares to fight on, we shall bomb Port Said, Alexandria and Cairo.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Christian, Fashion, War

  "The 1982 invasion of Lebanon". International Socialist Review, Issue 50, www.isreview.org. November–December 2006.

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• You spoke about things they couldn't see and so they laughed. Yet to row up the dark river against the current, to take the unknown road blindly, stubbornly, and to search for words rooted like the knotted olive tree- let them laugh. And to yearn for the other world to inhabit today's suffocating loneliness, this ravaged present- let them be.

  Giorgos Seferis

  Loneliness, Dark, Other Worlds

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• If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current - how can he help others across?

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Helping Others, Men

  "The Discourse Collection. Selected Texts from the Sutta Nipata". Book by John D. Ireland, www.accesstoinsight.org. 1995.

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• Know from the rivers in clefts and in crevices: those in small channels flow noisily, the great flow silent. Whatever's not full makes noise. Whatever is full is quiet.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Noise, Flow

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• Here in this body are the sacred rivers, here are the sun and moon, as well as the pilgrimage places. I have not encountered another temple as blissful as my own body

  Saraha

  Life, Buddhist, Moon

  "Weekly Meditations for Healthy Sex (Dec. 21-27)" by Alexandra Katehakis, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 21, 2012.

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• The fighting was fierce and lasted for the greater part of a day; blood ran in rivers.

  Matthew of Edessa

  War, Fighting, Blood

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• Ever since I was a child I've felt connected to water: lakes, rivers, streams--I love to jump in and swim around. But it's the ocean where I go for rejuvenation, revelation, and solace.

  Susan Cohn Rockefeller

  Children, Ocean, Lakes

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• The sea is the source of water and the source of wind; for neither would blasts of wind arise in the clouds and blow out from within them, except for the great sea, nor would the streams of rivers nor the rain-water in the sky exist but for the sea ; but the great sea is the begetter of clouds and winds and rivers.

  Xenophanes

  Rain, Ocean, Blow

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• Few cross over the river. Most are stranded on this side. On the riverbank they run up and down. But the wise man, following the way, Crosses over, beyond the reach of death. He leaves the dark way For the way of light.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Running, Dark

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• When we are young we are like a flowing river - and then we freeze.

  Kurt Lewin

  Culture, Young, Flowing River

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• "If any man thirst, let him come and drink from the rivers of living water" (cf. John 7:38). Where shall he who thirsts come? To heretics where the fountain and river of water is in no way life-giving? Or to the Church, which is One?

  Cyprian

  Men, Cfs, Giving

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• My teaching is not a philosophy. It is the result of direct experience...
  My teaching is a means of practice, not something to hold onto or worship.
  My teaching is like a raft used to cross the river.
  Only a fool would carry the raft around after he had already reached the other shore of liberation.

  Gautama Buddha

  Philosophy, Teaching, Mean

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• The summer ends and we wonder who we are And there you go, my friends, with your boxes in your car And today I passed the high school, the river, the maple tree I passed the farms that made it Through the last days of the century And I knew that I was going to learn again Again, in this less hazy light I saw the fields beyond the fields The fields beyond the field

  Dar Williams

  Summer, Goodbye, School

  Song: The End of the Summer

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• The whole of existence is dancing, except man. The whole of existence is in a very relaxed movement; movement there is, certainly, but it is utterly relaxed. Trees are growing and birds are chirping and rivers are flowing, stars are moving: everything is going in a very relaxed way. No hurry, no haste, no worry, and no waste. Except man. Man has fallen a victim of his mind.

  Rajneesh

  Stars, Moving, Men

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