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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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"A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach." »Niccolo Machiavelli
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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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"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one." »J. D. Salinger
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"The mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one." »William Stekel
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed." »Buddha
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"We aim above the mark to hit the mark." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"My friend I consider you my brother. I know we are not blood, and blood is thicker than water, but your body already has all the blood it needs. You will always need water." »Eric Pio
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"Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe." »Dan Quayle
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"Never let a stain from the past put a mark on your future." »Jillian Graham, Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul
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"I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others." »Greville
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"Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality." »Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
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"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"After a person makes his mark in the world, a lot of people will come around with erasers." »Joe Moore
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"The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions." »Marcus Tullius Cicero
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"The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect." »Robert Louis Stephenson
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"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." »Aristotle
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"A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark." »Marcus Aelius Aurelius
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