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The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.

—Dave Barry

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It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.

—Loudon Wainwright III

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All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

—Toni Morrison

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Soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rock, love stronger than violence.

—Hermann Hesse

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The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.

—Plautus

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Just as the water of the streams we see is small in amount compared to that which flows underground, so the idealism which becomes visible is small in amount compared with what men and women bear locked in their hearts. . . . To unbind what is bound, to bring the underground waters to the surface: mankind is waiting and longing for such as can do that.

—Albert Schweitzer

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If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".

—Lyndon B. Johnson

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Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

—Napoleon Bonaparte

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I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.

—David Lee Roth

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Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'.

—Michael McClary

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