Dirty Water Quotes

• Water is life's matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Mother, Ice Water, Water Of Life

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• In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference.

  Rachel Carson

  Men, Ice Water, Survival

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We have to learn how to come out of unclean situations cleaner than we were, and even how to wash ourselves with dirty water whenwe need to.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dirty, Water, Needs

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• Our world is one of terrible contradictions. Plenty of food, but one billion people go hungry. Lavish lifestyles for a few, but poverty for too many others. Huge advances in medicine while mothers die every day in childbirth, and children die every day from drinking dirty water. Billions spent on weapons to kill people instead of keeping them safe.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Mother, Children, Dirty

  Opening Remarks at Press Event on Day of Seven Billion, www.un.org. October 31, 2011.

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• Even if you enter the dirty water, stay neat like a white swan!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dirty, Swans, White

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• You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.

  Idries Shah

  Dirty, Water, Empty

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• Humans needed water or they would die, but dirty water killed as surely as thirst. You had to boil it before you drank it. This culture around tea was a way of tiptoeing along the knife edge between those two ways of dying.

  Neal Stephenson

  Dirty, Knives, Two

  Neal Stephenson (2011). “Reamde”, p.313, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• If we are pure at heart, we would not wish one person well and not another. We should see there is no difference between one person or another. Then our pure thoughts can be evenly spread between all people. Sunshine can reflect on clean water but not on dirty water. God's light will be reflected by those persons with a pure heart.

  Baba Hari Dass

  Spiritual, Dirty, Inspiration

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• Where does rain come from? It comes from all the dirty water that evaporates from the earth, like urine and the water you throw out after washing your feet. Isn't it wonderful how the sky can take that dirty water and change it into pure, clean water? Your mind can do the same with your defilements if you let it.

  Ajahn Chah

  Rain, Dirty, Sky

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• To pursue truth with such astonishing lack of consideration for other people's feelings, to rend the thin veils of civilisation so wantonly, so brutally, was to her so horrible an outrage of human decency that, without replying, dazed and blinded, she bend her head as if to let her pelt f jagged hail, the drench of dirty water, bespatter her unrebuked.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dirty, Thinking, People

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• Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean cannot be had.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Nice, Dirty

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.32, Harvard University Press

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• Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else's dirty water.

  Alexander Woollcott

  Art, Dirty, Reading

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