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“The well-known fact that the form of a specific substance, e.g. water, and hence its properties can alter without a change in composition was disposed of by the formal view that a physical, not a chemical, process was involved.”

Wells Facts Form Process Water Views Known Involved Property Substance Chemicals Composition Formal Well Known

Author:Wilhelm Ostwald

“Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water”

Force Sports Process Water Leadership Teacher Students Involved Drink Learning Process Stagnant Stagnant Water

Author:Jean-Baptiste de La Salle

“Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They [those who believe that "there are men on the other side of the earth"] fail to observe that even if the world is held to be global or rounded in shape, or if some process of reasoning should prove this to be the case, it would still not necessarily follow that the land on the opposite side is not covered by masses of water."”

“Teachers are reservoirs from which, through the process of education, students draw the water of life.”

Process Water Teacher Teaching Students Draws Reservoirs Water Of Life

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“(The processes are) doubly ruinous: they impoverish the earth by hastily removing, for the benefit of a few generations, the common resources which, once expended and dissipated, can never be restored; and second, in its technique, its habits, its processes, the paleotechnic period is equally inimical to the earth considered as a human habitat, by its destruction of the beauty of the landscape, its ruining of streams, its pollution of drinking water, its filling the air with a finely divided carboniferous deposit, which chokes both life and vegetation.”

“The water color process takes me and itself to a destination I hadn't even known existed... Whatever I put down on the page, the paint will dry as it wants to.”

Want Process Water Known Color Pages Paint Dry Destination Take Me

Author:Joseph Raffael

“The process could be likened to relaxing on a riverbank and watching a fish leap out of the water, sparkle for a moment in the sunlight, then dive back in a graceful arc. There is no need to engage in a mental dialogue about the merits and demerits of the fish, emotionally react to the fish, or jump into the water to try to catch the fish. Once the fish is out of sight, it should also be out of mind.”

Needs Should Trying Mind Moments Process Water Meditation Sight Fishes Dialogue Merit Leap Sunlight Arcs Sparkle

Author:Bill Vaughan

“There is a water soluble sugar that is in beans called oligosaccharides and they are indigestible by human beings. They ferment during the digestion process and hence you have gas.”

Humans Process Water Human Beings Gas Sugar Beans Digestion

Author:Crescent Dragonwagon

“It is hard to think of conversion as a blinding light on the road to Damascus, or as a highly spiritual or intellectual process, when the light comes from a flickering television; the voice of the deity is Bishop Sheen and you have drilled your father on his catechism answers...I was troubled at a young age by the idea that pouring water over someone's head could change both his relationship to God.”

Thinking Ideas Hard Light Age Spiritual Young Religion Father Process Women Voice Water Answers Television Intellectual Conversion Young Age Deities Bishops Pouring Catechism Blinding Light

Author:Susan Jacoby

“We live in story like a fish lives in water. We swim through words and images siphoning story through our minds the way a fish siphons water through its gills. We cannot think without language, we cannot process experience without story.”

Thinking Way Mind Stories Language Process Water Fishes Swim

Book:Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives Through the Power and Practice of Story

Source: Storycatcher: Making Sense of Our Lives Through the Power and Practice of Story

“The government tells us we need flood control and comes to straighten the creek in our pasture. The engineer on the job tells us the creek is now able to carry off more flood water, but in the process we have lost our old willows where the owl hooted on a winter night and under which the cows switched flies in the noon shade. We lost the little marshy spot where our fringed gentians bloomed.”

Needs Littles Government Able Jobs Night Lost Process Water Environmental Winter Spots Shade Cows Engineers Flood Our Past Noon Owl Pastures Creeks Winter Night

Book:Round River

Source: Round River

“I think that the movement against the World Bank, against the globalization process that is happening, is very positive. We need a globalization, a globalization of people who are committed to social justice, to economic justice. We need a globalization of people who are committed to saving this earth, to making sure that the water is drinkable, that the air is breathable.”

People Thinking World Needs Earth Social Process Water Justice Air Economic Movement Happenings Social Justice Committed Saving Globalization Very Positive Economic Justice World Bank

Author:Assata Shakur

“I always have wanted to know how the whole thing was done, what the process involved. And I don't particularly enjoy that my music is stripped of ancillary details, and it just sort of comes out of this big tap called the Internet like water. I like some of my water to be neatly presented in a bottle. With a label on it.”

Knows Done Whole Bigs Wanted Process Enjoy Water Know How Internet Involved Music Is Details Labels Bottles

Author:Brian Eno

“It did not take Man long-probably not more than a hundred centuries-to discover that all the animals except the dog were impossible around the house. One has but to spend a few days with an aardvark or llama, command a water buffalo to sit up and beg or try to housebreak a moose, to perceive how wisely Man set about his process of elimination and selection.”

Source: James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)