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• And now for the vapor-bath: on a framework of three sticks, meeting at the top, they stretch pieces of woolen cloth, taking care to get the joints as perfect as they can, and inside this little tent they put a dish with red-hot stones in it. Then they take some hemp seed, creep into the tent, and throw the seed on to the hot stones. At once it begins to smoke, giving off a vapor unsurpassed by any vapor-bath one could find in Greece. The Sythians enjoy it so much that they howl with pleasure. This is their substitute for an ordinary bath in water, which they never use.

  Herodotus

  War, Water, Giving

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• Al Gore likes to say that mankind puts 70 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every day. What he probably doesn't know is that mother nature puts 24,000 times that amount of our main greenhouse gas-water vapor-into the atmosphere every day and removes about the same amount every day. While this does not 'prove' that global warming is not man-made, it shows that weather systems have by far the greatest control over the Earth's greenhouse effect, which is dominated by water vapor and clouds.

  Roy Spencer

  Mother, Men, Clouds

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• To the children and the innocent it's all the same.

  Jack Kerouac

  Children, Innocent, Dharma Bums

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.244, Penguin

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• The river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper.

  Ray Bradbury

  Lunch, Rivers, People

  Ray Bradbury (1967). “Fahrenheit 451”, Simon & Schuster

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• Wine, like the rising sun, possession gains,
  And drives the mist of dullness from the brains,
  The gloomy vapor from the spirit flies,
  And views of gaiety and gladness rise.

  George Crabbe

  Wine, Views, Brain

  George Crabbe (1855). “Poetical Works: Preface to the Tales”, p.383

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• Tis ever thus: indulgence spoils the base;
  Raising up pride, and lawless turbulence,
  Like noxious vapors from the fulsome marsh
  When morning shines upon it.

  Joanna Baillie

  Morning, Pride, Shining

  Joanna Baillie (2001). “Plays on the Passions”, p.143, Broadview Press

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• The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat.

  Isaac Newton

  Shining, Heat

  Sir Isaac Newton (2012). “Newton's Philosophy of Nature: Selections from His Writings”, p.137, Courier Corporation

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• I stop and think what they call "punk rock" today...give me a break! Let me know when they can walk in the vapor trail of Little Richard, which was punk. You've got a gay black guy with a pompadour singing about tutti frutti with your white girl. Fuck you.

  Ted Nugent

  Girl, Gay, Thinking

  "Ted Nugent & Henry Rollins: American Flag/Black Flag". Elmore Magazine Interview, www.elmoremagazine.com. November 3, 2013.

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• What ascends up in prayer descends to us again in blessings. It is like the rain which just now fell, and which had been drawn up from the ground in vapors to the clouds before it descended from them to the earth in that refreshing shower.

  Hannah More

  Prayer, Rain, Blessing

  Hannah More (1857). “The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain: And Other Tales”, p.333

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• Water is everywhere and in all living things; we cannot be seperated from water. No water, no life. Period. Water comes in many forms - liquid, vapor, ice, snow, fog, rain, hail. But no matter the form, it's still water.

  Robert Fulghum

  Rain, Fog, Ice

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• Fame is a vapor, popularity is an accident, riches take wings, those who cheer today may curse tomorrow and only one thing endures - character.

  Horace Greeley

  Wisdom, Cheer, Character

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• I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other.

  Jack Kerouac

  Love You, Care, Way

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.244, Penguin

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• Aristotle's opinion... that comets were nothing else than sublunary vapors or airy meteors... prevailed so far amongst the Greeks, that this sublimest part of astronomy lay altogether neglected; since none could think it worthwhile to observe, and to give an account of the wandering and uncertain paths of vapours floating in the Ether.

  Edmond Halley

  Thinking, Giving, Greek

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• For a few moments, attune your mind to the idea of harmony and peaceful coexistence flowing among all peoples and nations. The source of this idea is deep within your heart. As you calmly breathe in and out, picture it radiating from you like a fine, colored vapor gradually covering the face of the earth. See it enter the hearts of everyone, especially those stuck in the mad zones. Feel it circulate everywhere until it comes all the way round and back to you. This is love in action. The source of this love is the Tao. Savor this.

  Stephen Russell

  Heart, Love Is, Ideas

  Stephen Russell (1998). “Barefoot Doctor's Handbook for the Urban Warrior: A Spiritual Survival Guide”, Piatkus Books

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• The black asphalt wouls shimmer with vapors I had a theory about those vapors...not released by the sun but by a huge onion buried under the city. This onion made us cry... I thought about the giant onion, that remarkable bulb of sadness.

  Gary Soto

  Sadness, Cities, Black

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• As the days go on toward July, the earth becomes dry and all the flowers begin to thirst for moisture. Then from the hillside, some warm, still evening, the sweet rain-song of the robin echoes clear, and next day we wake up to a dim morning; soft flecks of cloud bar the sun's way, fleecy vapors steal across the sky, the southwest wind blows lightly, rippling the water into little waves that murmur melodiously as they kiss the shore.

  Celia Thaxter

  Summer, Sweet, Song

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• The Scythians take kannabis seed, creep in under the felts, and throw it on the red-hot stones. It smolders and sends up such billows of steam-smoke that no Greek vapor bath can surpass it. The Scythians howl with joy in these vapor-baths, which serve them instead of bathing, for they never wash their bodies with water.

  Herodotus

  Water, Joy, Greek

  "The Histories". Book by Herodotus, c. 440 BC.

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• The chemists are a strange class of mortals, impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasures amid smoke and vapor, soot and flame, poisons and poverty; yet among all these evils I seem to live so sweetly that may I die if I were to change places with the Persian king.

  Johann Joachim Becher

  Change, Kings, Flames

  "Physica subterranea". Book by Johann Joachim Becher, 1669.

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• Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky and really meant it. "I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other." To the children and the innocent it's all the same.

  Jack Kerouac

  God, Faith, Children

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.244, Penguin

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• Let's just say that if these scientist had been using their brilliance for good instead of evil, cars would run off water vapor and leave fresh compost behind them; no one would be hungry; no one would be ill; all buildings would be earthquake-, bomb-, and flood-proof; and the world's entire economy would have collapsed and been replaced by one based on the value of chocolate.

  James Patterson

  Running, Earthquakes, Evil

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• Imagine your body replaced by dust and vapor, and having a tingly feeling in your stomach without even having a stomach. Imagine having to concentrate just to keep yourself from dispersing into nothing. I got so angry, a flash of lightning crackled inside me. “Don’t be that way,” Amos chuckled. “It’s only for a few minutes.

  Rick Riordan

  Dust, Feelings, Body

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• Haply for I am black, And have not those soft parts of conversation That chamberers have; or for I am declined Into the vale of years—yet that’s not much— She’s gone. I am abused, and my relief Must be to loathe her. O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad And live upon the vapor of a dungeon Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others’ uses. Yet ’tis the plague of great ones; Prerogatived are they less than the base. ’Tis destiny unshunnable, like death.

  William Shakespeare

  Destiny, Years, Black

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Othello”, p.140, Heinemann

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• The theory of interest was wrapped in utter obscurity, until Hume and Smith dispelled the vapor.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Obscurity, Theory, Hume

  Jean Baptiste Say (1821). “A treatise on political economy; or, The production, distribution, and consumption of wealth. Tr. by C.R. Prinsep, with notes”, p.152

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• And for Incoherent Speech, it was amongst the Gentiles taken for one sort of Prophecy, because the Prophets of their Oracles, intoxicated with a spirit, or vapor from the cave of the Pythian Oracle at Delphi, were for a time really mad, and spake like mad-men; of whoose loose words a sense might be made to fit any event, in such sort, as all bodies are said to be made of Materia prima .

  Thomas Hobbes

  Taken, Men, Mad

  Thomas Hobbes (1953). “Leviathan”, Peter Smith Pub Inc

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• To play the piano is to consort with nature. Every mollusk, galaxy, vapor or viper as well the sweet incense of love's distraction, is within the hands and grasp of the pianist.

  Russell Sherman

  Sweet, Hands, Play

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