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“The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated.”

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Washington Irving was an American author known for his significant contributions to American literature. His works, including 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle', have had a profound impact on American literature. more

“All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and time to persuade analysis and to foist their problems on to the absent mother, who has no opportunity to utter a word in her own defence. Hostility to the mother in our societies is an index of mental health.”

“Only by working within the laws that govern the flow of water will happiness be achieved.”

Law Water Flow

Author:Laozi

“The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep he waters pure.”

Force Water Opinion Security Produce Pure Presses Public Opinion Agitation Free Press

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“He who drinks a tumbler of London water has literally in his stomach more animated beings than there are men, women, and children on the face of the globe.”

Men Children Humor Funny Faces Water Drink London Stomach Globes Men Women Animated

Author:Sydney Smith

“The biggest waste of water in the country by far. You spend half a pint and flush two gallons.”

Two Country Water Half Waste Pints Gallons

Author:Prince Philip

“To enjoy freedom ... we have of course to control ourselves. We must not squander our powers, helplessly and ignorantly, squirting half the house in order to water a single rose.”

Order Courses House Enjoy Water Freedom Half Rain Rivers Rose World Water Day Control Ourselves Single Rose

Book:A room of one's own and other essays

Source: A room of one's own and other essays

“Freedom alone is not enough without light to read at night, without time or access to water to irrigate your farm, without the ability to catch fish to feed your family.”

Enough Light Night Water Ability Rain Rivers Fishes Access Our Family Farms Access To Water

Book:Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations

“To trace the history of a river . . . is to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body.”

Mind Soul Body Water Rain Rivers Waterfalls Descending Raindrops Rivers And Water Water Is Life Water Fountain Bodies Of Water

Book:Islands, the universe, home

Source: Islands, the universe, home

“The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million tons of it there every year. The business of the Mississippi, which it will accomplish in time, is methodically to transport all of Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico.”

Years Two States Water Millions Rain Rivers South Accomplish Miles Thirty Carrie Mexico Ecology Mud Transport Provinces Mississippi Deposits Illinois Delta Mississippi River Gulf Of Mexico

Author:Charles Kuralt

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