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“Sometimes a single battle decides everything and sometimes, too, the slightest circumstance decides the issue of a battle. There is a moment in every battle at which the least manoeuvre is decisive and gives superiority, as one drop of water causes overflow.”

Giving War Sometimes Moments Causes Water Issues Circumstances Battle Superiority Overflow Drop Of Water

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“All gambling is the telling of a fortune, but of a monstrously depleted fortune, empty of everything save one numerical circumstance, shorn of all such richness as a voyage across the water, a fair man that loves you, a dark woman that means you harm.”

Men Mean Water Dark Love You Circumstances Fairs Empty Fortune Harm Gambling Richness Voyages

Book:The Thinking Reed

Source: The Thinking Reed

“Life from nonlife, like wine from water, has long been considered a miracle wrought by gods or God. Now it is seen to be the near-inevitable consequence of our thermal and chemical circumstances.”

Long Water Circumstances Consequence Miracle Wine Inevitable Chemicals Thermal

Author:Ursula Goodenough

“The impulse of humanity toward social progress is like the movement in the currents of a great water system, from myriad sources and under myriad circumstances and conditions, beating onward, ever onward toward its eternity, the Ocean.”

Humanity Social Water Progress Conditions Movement Source Circumstances Ocean Eternity Currents Impulse Social Change Social Progress

Book:The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters

Source: The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters

“The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.”

May Facts Care Sides Water Circumstances Grass Fence Crossings Take Care Of Yourself Greener Fencing Green Grass Grass Is Greener Crossing Over Greener On The Other Side Grass Is Greener On The Other Side

Book:It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It

Source: It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It

“She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its origins.”

Water Tears Circumstances Flow Heat Sheer Vague Weeping Velocity

Book:Jitterbug Perfume

Source: Jitterbug Perfume

“How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied--or, for that matter, awarded--because someone failed to see you properly? How many friends have you lost, how many have you gained, because they glimpsed some element of your personality that shone through for only an instant, and in circumstances you could never reproduce? An illusion of water shimmering at the far bend of a highway.”

Matter Opportunity Lost Water Wonder Personality Circumstances Elements Illusion Instant Denied Misunderstanding Highways Many Friends

Book:The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories

Source: The View from the Seventh Layer: Stories