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By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.
(Aeschylus (525-456 B.C.), Greek tragedian. Eumenides, l. 694.)
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But sound of water over a rock
Where the hermit-thrush sings in the pine trees
Drip drop drip drop drop drop drop
But there is no water
(T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), Anglo-American critic, poet. The Waste Land (l. 356-359). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.
(Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), British poet. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (l. 121-122). . .
Poems [Samuel Taylor Coleridge]. John Beer, ed. (1993) Everyman.)
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O commemorate me where there is water,
Canal water preferably, so stilly
Greeny at the heart of summer.
(Patrick Kavanagh (1905-1969), Irish poet, novelist. Lines Written on a Seat on the Grand Canal, Dublin (l. 1-3). . .
New Oxford Book of Irish Verse, The. Thomas Kinsella, ed. and tr. (1986) Oxford University Press.)
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Thales claimed that everything was water. He also put wine into water to sterilize it. Did he really believe he was putting water into water to sterilize it? Parmenides, like most Greeks, knew that wine was not water. But while lifting a glass of wine to his lips, he denied that motion was possible. Did he really believe that the glass was not moving when he lifted it?
(Avrum Stroll (b. 1921), U.S. philosopher. Certainty and Surface in Epistemology and Philosophical Method, p. 185, Edwin Mellen Press (1991).)
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She was false as water.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Othello, in Othello, act 5, sc. 2, l. 134.
Proverbial; "false" means unstable, unreliable.)
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Underwater eyes, an eel's
Oil of water body, neither fish nor beast is the otter:
(Ted Hughes (b. 1930), British poet. An Otter (l. 1-2). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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Friendship and money: oil and water.
(Mario Puzo, U.S. author, screenwriter, and Francis Ford Coppola, U.S. director, screenwriter. Michael Corleone (Al Pacino), The Godfather III, said to the Archbishop after Corleone is informed that the corrupt clergyman is now in charge of the Vatican Bank and wants to do business with his friend Corleone (1990).)
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Here is no water but only rock
(T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), Anglo-American critic, poet. The Waste Land (l. 331). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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I alternate treading water
and deadman's float.
(Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "The Big Boots of Pain.")
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