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“Botha swimmer and a drowned man are in the water; the latter is borne by the water and controlled by it, while the swimmer is borne along by his own power and of his own volition. Every movement made by the drowned man - indeed, every act and word that issue from him - comes from the water, not from him... The saints are like this. They have died before death.”

Men Made Wisdom Water Issues Movement Died Saint Islamic Latter Controlled Swimmer Volition Before Death

Author:Rumi

“There is simply no room left for 'freedom from the tyranny of government' since city dwellers depend on it for food, power, water, transportation, protection, and welfare. Your right to live where you want, with companions of your choosing, under laws to which you agree, died in the eighteenth century with Captain Mission. Only a miracle or a disaster could restore it.”

Source: Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader

“When women and men have approximately equal life expectancies, it seems to be because women die not only in childbirth (fewer than thought) but about equal from diseases; poor sanitation and water; inadequate healthcare; and diseases of malnutrition. In industrialized societies, early deaths are caused more by diseases triggered by stress, which breaks down the immune system. It is since stress has become the key factor that men have died so much sooner than women.”

Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex

“We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and the much longer lives that accompany them. Yet we should remember that the vast majority of humans ever born died before the age of 10 from an infectious disease.”

“My dad almost died as a child from water-borne diseases in Ethiopia, and he had talked to me about digging a well in Ethiopia and I thought, I have too many friends and great people in my life that would be concerned with this subject of clean water.”

People Wells Children Would Be Water Subjects Dad Disease Concerned Died Clean My Dad Great People Digging Many Friends Clean Water Ethiopia

Author:Kenna

“Water inflated the belly Of Hart Crane, and of Shelley. Coleridge was a dope. Southwell died on a rope.”

Water Criticism Died Belly Rope Dope Hart Cranes Shelley

Book:The Middle of a War

Source: The Middle of a War

“The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water-the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter.”

People Names Stars Water Sky Spring Angel Rivers Thirds Died Environmental Bitter Trumpets Torches Blazing Wormwood

Author:John the Apostle

“My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.”

“A person can attack that bottle of vodka and drink it like it's a bottle of cold water. Two of my wife's girlfriends died from drinking. They weren't big pill-takers; they were drinkers. So it can't be so simple as to slide away, like Marilyn Monroe.”

Persons Two Bigs Water Simple Wife Cold Drink Died Drinking My Wife Girlfriend Bottles Pills Slides Drinkers Vodka Cold Water

Author:William Eggleston