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"I bet what happened was, they discovered fire and invented the wheel on the same day. Then, that night, they burned the wheel." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much-the wheel, New York, wars and so on-while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man-for precisely the same reason." »Douglas Noel Adams
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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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"The soul goes round upon a wheel of stars and all things return....Good and evil go round in a wheel that is one thing and not many. Do you not realise in your heart, do you not believe behind all your beliefs, that there is but one reality and we are its shadows and that all things are but aspects of one thing a centre where men melt into Man and Man into God 'No,' said Father Brown." »Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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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
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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 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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"Put your shoulder to the wheel." »Aesop
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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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"I'll have you spread-eagled on a wagon wheel" »John Wayne
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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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"The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced." »Vic Gold
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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 wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall to-day be uppermost." »Confucius
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"Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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"In this chaotic world where everything is moving and turning, one's partner should be like the centre of a wheel which never moves and always remains still." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"The most stupid man is not the one who acts or speaks improperly, but he who consigns the steering wheel of his destiny to a religious man." »adelkeri
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"If you make ships in a bottle, I bet the thing that really makes your heart sink is when you look in, and there at the wheel is Captain Termite." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Lloyd Hey, I guess they're right senior citizens although slow and dangerous behind the wheel--can still serve a purpose. I'll be right back, don't you go dying on me" »Dumb & Dumber
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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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"...desire cracks open the gates. If you're ready it will take you through. But nothing lasts forever, time is the destroyer, the wheel turns again and again, watch out it will take you through." »Starhawk
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"Who would've thought such a slight tilt in our earthly axis could make such a big difference in our lives The big wheel keeps on turning and here we are again, looking in the sweet face of darkness." »Geoffrey Neighor
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