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"What a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power. Just as one sees not in the water of an unruffled pond the fury and roar with which it can dash down a steep rock without injury to itself, or how high it is capable of rising; or as little as one can suspect the latent heat in ice-cold water." »Schopenhauer
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"It is occasionally possible to charge hell with a bucket of water, but against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain." »Doris Fleeson
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"In a marshland amongst the crocodiles, there float beautiful water lilies! Even in the hell, one can find the good and the beauty." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless--like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash Be water my friend." »Bruce Lee
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"water, water, everywhere,And all the boards did shrink.water, water everywhere,Nor any drop to drink." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Senator, I started my life in a house without water or electricity. So I don't cede to you the high moral ground of not knowing what life is like in a ditch. to Senator Robert Byrd at a budget hearing" »Paul O'Neill
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"People ask whether there is hell. Yes, there is Hell: Hate is Hell!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The tendency of man's nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downwards. There are none but have this tendency to good, just as all water flows downwards. Now by striking water and causing it to leap up, you may make it go." »Ni'matullah Wali
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"If there is, in fact, a Heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix..." »Hunter S. Thompson, Generation of Swine
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"I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell." »Harry S Truman, quoted by Time, June 9, 1975
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"I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell." »Harry S Truman
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"I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell." »Harry S Truman
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"Anger is a rough water; if you can canalize it into a water mill, you can benefit from it. Anything bad can be transformed into good." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"You should respect each other and refrain from disputes you should not, like water and oil, repel each other, but should, like milk and water, mingle together." »Buddha
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"The best [man] is like water.
Water is good; it benefits all things and does not compete with them.
It dwells in [lowly] places that all disdain.
This is why it is so near to Tao." »Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu
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"The best man is like water. Water is good it benefits all things and does not compete with them. It dwells in lowly places that all disdain. This is why it is so near to Tao." »Lao Tzu
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"The highest goodness is like water. Water benefits all things and does not compete. It stays in the lowly places which others despise. Therefore it is near The Eternal." »Lao Tzu
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"From the age of six, I have known that I was sexy. And let me tell you it has been hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it." »Bette Davis
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"The sun opens the lotuses, the moon illumines the beds of water-lilies, the cloud pours forth its water unasked: even so the liberal of their own accord are occupied in benefiting others." »Bhartrihari
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"The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others." »Hazlitt
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"high living and high thinking are poles apart." »B. J. Gupta
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"By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell -- and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed." »Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf
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"I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect." »George Carlin
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"No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see." »Taoist Proverb
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"The first drink with water, the second without water, the third like water." »Danish proverb
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"What is harder than rock, or softer than water Yet soft water hollows out hard rock. Persevere." »Ovid
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"Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success." »T. T. Munger
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"high thoughts must have high language." »Aristophanes
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"I like less the story that a frog if put in cold water will not bestir itself if that water is heated up slowly and gradually and will in the end let itself be boiled alive, too comfortable with continuity to realize that continuous change at some point may become intolerable and demand a change in behavior." »Charles Handy - The Age of Unreason
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"The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of hell and a hell of Heaven" »John Milton, Dr. Faustus
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