I felt the water rising enough to touch my Vans. She was worth ruing a pair of shoes over. ― Nyrae Dawn, What a Boy Wants

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If you are poor, avoid wine as a costly luxury; if you are rich, shun it as a fatal indulgence. Stick to plain water.

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That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence. ― Christopher Hitchens

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Although two thirds of our planet is water, we face an acute water shortage. The water crisis is the most pervasive , most severe, and most invisible dimension of the ecological devastation of the earth.

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Time is clearly not our natural dimension. Thus it is that we are never really at home in time. Alternately, we find ourselves wishing to hasten the passage of time or to hold back the dawn. We can do neither, of course, but whereas the fish is at home in water, we are clearly not at home in time--because we belong to eternity.

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Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken. ― M.F.K. Fisher

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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

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Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth.

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The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what’s that? The freedom to starve? — Angela Davis

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Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It's a grain. It's like, like, grits, but with high self-esteem. ― James Patterson

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