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“I always tell people, anger is like liquid. It's fluid, it's like water. You put it in a container and it takes the shape of that container. So many people you see in prison, unleashing war on their people, they are angry, and they take their anger and put it into a violent container.”

People War Water Shapes Angry Prison Violent Fluid Liquid Containers Unleashing

Author:Leymah Gbowee

“Water is a commodity not by any means to be found everywhere...When found, it is more than likely to be bad, being either from a bitter alkaline pool, or from a hole in a creek, so muddy that it can only be called liquid by courtesy.”

Mean Found Water Holes Bitter Pool Commodity Courtesy Liquid Muddy Creeks

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.”

People Want Littles Water Fats Cooks Covered Vegetables Coats Liquid Residual

Author:Sally Schneider

“Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it.”

Has Beens Water Clear Food Terrible Cooking Chosen Substance Poison Culinary Alcoholics Washing Liquid Drop Of Water Muddle Absinthe

Author:Alfred Jarry

“Many different planets are many different distances from their host star; we find ourselves at this distance because if we were closer or farther away, the temperature would be hotter or colder, eliminating liquid water, an essential ingredient for our survival.”

Ifs Different Would Be Stars Water Planets Essentials Survival Distance Ingredients Host Temperature Liquid Eliminating Hotter

Author:Brian Greene

“Our best shot at finding life in our solar system might be to look at the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. Mars, increasingly, looks like a dead planet. But the oceans beneath the ice cover of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn may actually have more liquid water than the oceans of Earth.”

Looks May Might Earth Water Planets Moon Ocean Findings Shots Ice Mars Liquid Solar System Jupiter Saturn Best Shot

Author:Michio Kaku

“When Pico [Iyer] talks about home being a place of isolation, I think he's right. But it's the paradox. I think that's why I so love Great Salt Lake. Every day when I look out at that lake, I think, "Ah, paradox" - a body of water than no one can drink. It's the liquid lie of the desert. But I think we have those paradoxes within us and certainly the whole idea of home is windswept with paradox.”

Thinking Looks Ideas Whole Home Body Lying Water Drink Desert Isolation Lakes Paradox Salt Liquid Bodies Of Water

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them.”

Said Water Issues Ships Liquid Entrances Compact

Book:An Universal Dictionary of the Marine: Or, A Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Furniture, Machinery, Movements, and Military Operations of a Ship

Source: An Universal Dictionary of the Marine: Or, A Copious Explanation of the Technical Terms and Phrases Employed in the Construction, Equipment, Furniture, Machinery, Movements, and Military Operations of a Ship