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  A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Funny, Strength

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• The solution to our water problems is more rain.

  Mark Twain

  Rain, Problem, Solutions

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• Clean water is not an expenditure of Federal funds; clean water is an investment in the future of our country.

  Bud Shuster

  Country, Memorable, Clean Drinking Water

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• We must treat water as if it were the most precious thing in the world, the most valuable natural resource. Be economical with water! Don't waste it! We still have time to do something about this problem before it is too late.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Time, Environmental, Too Late

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• Next to blood relationships, come water relationships.

  Stanley Crawford

  Rain, Blood, Rivers

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• I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water... has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It has a thousand colors and a thousand shapes, yet it follows laws so definite that the tiniest streamlet is an exact replica of a great river.

  Roderick Haig-Brown

  Rain, Moving, Memorable

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• My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Leadership, Sarcastic

  "Mitch All Together". Live album by Mitch Hedberg, December 9, 2003.

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• For many of us, water simply flows from a faucet, and we think little about it beyond this point of contact. We have lost a sense of respect for the wild river, for the complex workings of a wetland, for the intricate web of life that water supports.

  Sandra Postel

  Rain, Science, Thinking

  Sandra Postel (2014). “The Last Oasis: Facing Water Scarcity”, p.184, Routledge

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• A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Civilization, Environmental, Development

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.1131, Best Books on

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  There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Hilarious, Laughter

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• Water is a very good servant, but it is a cruel master.

  Charles G.D. Roberts

  Masters, Very Good, Servant

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• Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

  Mark Twain

  Hurt, Rain, Food

  Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume I: (1855-1873)”, p.189, Univ of California Press

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• A man who drinks only water has a secret to hide from his fellow men.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Secret, Fellow Man

  Charles Baudelaire (1971). “Artificial Paradise: On Hashish and Wine as Means of Expanding Individuality”

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• Water is the formless potential out of which creation emerged. It is the ocean of unconsciousness enveloping the islands of consciousness. Water bathes us at birth and again at death, and in between it washes away sin. It is by turns the elixir of life or the renewing rain or the devastating flood.

  Scott Sanders

  Rain, Ocean, Islands

  Scott Russell Sanders (1997). “Writing from the Center”, p.142, Indiana University Press

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• If you desire to dig a well to reach water, your efforts are more fruitful if you dig one 100-foot-deep hole than if you dig ten holes each 10 feet deep.

  Dan Millman

  Feet, Effort, Desire

  Dan Millman (2010). “Living on Purpose: Straight Answers to Universal Questions”, p.127, New World Library

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• Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Inspirational, Funny, Sailing

  "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" l. 119 (1798).

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• So many people that I've seen can't get clean water. It's a crime.

  Jay-Z

  People, Crime, Clean

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• When the waters of a lake are absolutely still, the lake reflects the trees, the sky, and everything around it perfectly. At the slightest breeze, with the smallest ripple in the waters, the lake reflects nothing but itself. To see another with clarity and objectivity, one first must master stillness. The slightest breeze of judgment or interpretation from the rational mind will create a ripple that shatters Awareness and returns us to ordinary perception.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Lakes, Objectivity, Sky

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• The river moves from land to water to land, in and out of organisms, reminding us what native peoples have never forgotten: that you cannot separate the land from the water, or the people from the land.

  Lynn Culbreath Noel

  Rain, Moving, Lakes

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• The many-voiced song of the river echoed softly. Siddhartha looked into the river and saw many pictures in the flowing water. The river's voice was sorrowful. It sang with yearning and sadness, flowing towards its goal ... Siddhartha was now listening intently...to this song of a thousand voices ... then the great song of a thousand voices consisted of one word: Om - Perfection ... From that hour Siddhartha ceased to fight against his destiny.

  Hermann Hesse

  Song, Rain, Sadness

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• Between earth and earth's atmosphere, the amount of water remains constant; there is never a drop more, never a drop less. This is a story of circular infinity, of a planet birthing itself.

  Linda Hogan

  Rain, Rivers, Atmosphere

  Linda Hogan (1996). “Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• Clean water is a necessity that we can no longer take for granted. Each year more people die of water related diseases than any other cause of death on this planet. With a higher rate of suffering and mortality than diabetes, cancer, high cholesterol, or war; or any two combined for that matter! An entire economy is growing around water. Those without money are suffering the most and risk severe illness from contaminated sources

  Jewel

  Cancer, War, Years

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• You don't miss your water
  'Till your well runs dry.

  William Bell

  Running, Missing, Dry

  "You Don't Miss Your Water". Song by William Bell, 1965.

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• Globalization was supposed to break down barriers between continents and bring all peoples together. But what kind of globalization do we have with over one billion people on the planet not having safe water to drink?

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  People, Together, Safe

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• Looking for yourself is like a thirsty fish looking for water.

  Deepak Chopra

  Thirsty, Fishes

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