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Thursday, 24 July 2008

Daily Quote: "Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown." (Beecher, Henry Ward - Success)

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All that glitters is not gold.

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A pool is, for many of us in the West, a symbol not of affluence but of order, of control over the uncontrollable. A pool is water, made available and useful, and is, as such, infinitely soothing to the western eye.

-- Didion, Joan | Water

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In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

-- Lao-Tzu | Water

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So let man consider of what he was created; he was created of gushing water issuing between the loins and the breast-bones.

-- Qur'an | Water

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When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented.

-- Butler, Samuel | Water

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