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- Nov 07, 2020
Water Quotes
From scarcity to a daily habit, in one word.
These water quotes cover real ground, including a childhood memory of growing up without hot water and a pointed observation about how unevenly water access is rationed between Israel and the West Bank. The Good collection touches on related everyday gratitude.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Crew
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been instrumental in banning bottled water on the set. It hasn't gone that well with the crew... so I replaced it with tequila.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
An adult human can last 40 days without food, a week without any sleep, three days without water, but only five minutes without air. Yet nothing is more taken for granted than the air we breathe. However, not just any air will do - it must be exquisitely designed to meet our needs. Too little oxygen in the atmosphere will kill us, as will too much.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Younger generations in particular, who have spent a great deal of time in information environments since they were small children, would feel like a fish out of water if they were shut out of the global stream of information.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if that's all you've got, you're dead in the water. It's not good.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.
- Last
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- Nov 07, 2020
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents are Vietnamese refugees; they left Vietnam after the war. They were part of the boat people, and they ended up in a refugee camp in Thailand after being on the water for three days, and I was born at that refugee camp in Thailand.
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, working out is literally like eating a meal or drinking water or breathing.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Windmills, which are used in the great plains of Holland and North Germany to supply the want of falling water, afford another instance of the action of velocity. The sails are driven by air in motion - by wind.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
An abundant supply of excellent water, forming a volume equal in bulk to the human body, is conveyed by one of these pipes, and distributed about the city, where it is used by the inhabitants for drink and other purposes.
- Habit
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- Nov 07, 2020