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"Time is like a river. It flows one direction, But with a little force you can go back. But like a river, Everything you do has a ripple." »Kevin R. Hutson
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"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt." »Mark Twain
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"You can never step into the same river for new waters are always flowing on to you." »Heraclitus
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"You could not step twice into the same river for other waters are ever flowing on to you." »Heraclitus
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"If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let 'em go, because, man, they're gone." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river." »Nikita Khrushchev
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"The trees reflected in the river -- they are unconscious of a spiritual world so near to them. So are we." »Nathaniel Hawthorne
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"Enough shovels of earth ..........................a mountain. Enough pails of water ...............................a river." »Chinese Proverb
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"You have to sit by the side of a river for a *very* long time before a roast duck will fly into your mouth." »Guy Kawasaki
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"Till last by Philip's farm I flowTo join the brimming river,For men may come and men may go,But I go on for ever." »Alfred Lord Tennyson
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"He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses." »Horace
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"Only after the last tree has been cut down, Only after the last river has been poisoned, Only after the last fish has been caught, Only then will you find that money cannot be eaten." »Cree Indian Prophecy
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"What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy river to save a solid-gold baby Maybe we'll never know." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust." »Gustave Flaubert
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"Better than power over all the earth, better than going to heaven and better than dominion over the worlds is the joy of the man who enters the river of life that leads to Non-Being." »The Dhammapada
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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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"Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow." »Lydia Maria Child
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"Time is a flowing river. Happy those who allow themselves to be carried, unresisting, with the current. They float through easy days. They live, unquestioning, in the moment." »Christopher Darlington Morley
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"Power may be justly compared to a great river while kept within its bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it goes." »Alexander Hamilton
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"Why cross an ocean when you can cross a river Why should we sail to Washington when we can meet right away 10 miles from here (On Middle East peace initiative)" »Shimon Peres
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"Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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"All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the lethean river. . .In this way they become forgetful of the former earthlife, and re-visit the vaulted realms of the world, willing to return again into living bodies." »Virgil
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"Five miles meandering with mazy motion,Through dale the sacred river ran,Then reached the caverns measureless to man,And sank the tumult to a lifeless oceanAnd 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from farAncestral voices prophesying war" »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Dr. Joel Fleischman in nature. Not exactly the man you knew. He couldn't see past the Hudson river if he tried. He liked his fish smoked or preferable hand sliced from Zabars on a sliced bagel served with onions. Nature, to him, was an irritant. Birds didn't sing, they woke him up. A body of water wasn't life, it was a golf hazard.." »Robin Green
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"Sometimes we want to get away from the busy and hectic city life to find solace in the raging waves of the ocean pounding on the rocks or the turbulent splashing of a bubbling waterfall. At other times we are amazed by the immovable silence of a mountain or the gentle caress of a river overjoyed tat its union with the sea. The topography of a region speaks to each one of us--a secret language that people from all facets of life understand and relate to." »Stuti Garg
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"ONE WHO WAITS There are those who believe that time is a wheel turning forever. Which would mean that your moment will surely come. Then, there are those who believe that time is a river. Which, if that's true, it's possible that your moment has already flowed by. ED Which one do you think it is ONE WHO WAITS Ah. I think that time is just time." »Geoffrey Neighor
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"The Eagle wasn't always the Eagle. The Eagle, before he became the Eagle, was Yucatangee, the Talker. Yucatangee talked and talked. It talked so much it heard only itself. Not the river, not the wind, not even the Wolf. The Raven came and said The Wolf is hungry. If you stop talking, you'll hear him. The wind too. And when you hear the wind, you'll fly. So he stopped talking. And became its nature, the Eagle. The Eagle soared, and its flight said all it needed to say." »Robin Green
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