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Quotes of the Day for 22 March 2005 - Water

Today is World Water Day and for various reasons I can't pass that up. Living on an island in a region known for it's rain is part of it. Water also shows up in today's history. It was on this day in 1733 that England's Joseph Priestly invented carbonated water, you could call him the father of soda pop. Much more recently, it was on this day in 1941 that Grand Coulee Dam here in Washington State went into operation, backing up an incredible quantity of water.

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
     - English proverb

One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.
     - Hannah More, 1745 - 1833

Upon those who step into the same rivers different and ever different waters flow down.
     - Heraclitus of Ephesus

The cure for anything is salt water; sweat, tears, or the sea.
     - Isak Dinesen, pen name of Karen Blixen, 1885 - 1962

Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction - up, down, sideways - by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel.
     - Jacques-Yves Cousteau, 1910 - 1997

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing, because plumbing is an humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy, because philosophy is an exalted activy, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
     - John W. Gardner, 1912 - 2002

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