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“For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established.”

Order Difficult Water Study Effects Pure Sugar Magnitude Thorough Inversions Pure Water Sugar Cane

Author:Wilhelm Ostwald

“We frequently define an acid or a base as a substance whose aqueous solution gives, respectively, a higher concentration of hydrogen ion or of hydroxide ion than that furnished by pure water. This is a very one sided definition.”

Giving Water Higher Pure Solutions Definitions Substance Concentration Acid Hydrogen One Sided Ions Pure Water

Author:Gilbert N. Lewis

“I think the theatre is as essential to civilization as safe, pure water.”

Thinking Water Civilization Pure Safe Essentials Theatre Pure Water

Author:Vanessa Redgrave

“The value of land must, in the future, be assessed on its yield of potable water. Those property-owners with a constant source of pure water already have an economically-valuable "product" from their land, and need look no further for a source of income.”

Needs Looks Values Water Land Products Source Pure Constant Property Valuable Income Owners Yield Pure Water

Author:Bill Mollison

“When one that holds communion with the skies Has fill'd his urn where these pure waters rise, And once more mingles with us meaner things, 'Tis e'en as if an angel shook his wings.”

Ifs Water Sky Pure Angel Wings Communion Pure Water Angel Wings

Book:The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings

Source: The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings

“Any job that allows me to use my pure water cleaning system and water fed pole is one I love. The wow factor for the customer after we [New View Window Cleaning] are done and they can't believe what we did with "just water and a brush" is something I never tire of.”

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Author:Tony Evans

“Special care should be taken of the health of the inhabitants, which will depend chiefly on the healthiness of the locality and of the quarter to which they are exposed, and secondly on the use of pure water; this latter point is by no means a secondary consideration. For the elements which we use the most and oftenest for the support of the body contribute most to health, and among those are water and air. Wherefore, in all wise states, if there is want of pure water, and the supply is not all equally good, the drinking water ought to be separated from that which is used for other purposes.”

“Château and hut, stone face and dangling figure, the red stain on the stone floor, and the pure water in the village well-thousands of acres of land-a whole province of France-all France itself-lay under the night sky, concentrated into a faint hairbreadth line. So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star.”

Source: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)

“Knowledge will not be acquired without pains and application. It is troublesome and deep, digging for pure waters; but when once you come to the spring, they rise up and meet you.”

Pain Water Knowledge Pure Spring Application Digging Troublesome Without Pain Pure Water

Author:Tom Felton

“The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.'”

Said Two Age Water Dark Simple Behinds Dying Pure Medical Physicians Dark Ages Pure Water Simple Food

Author:Voltaire

“For the protection of the community, of individual life and health, there are some necessities that should be provided for all at the expense of all, such as roads, pure water, and sanitary systems for concentrated population, and reasonably comprehensive mail service. The determination between services that should be operated by the government and those which should be left to private enterprise under proper control should be governed by the degree of necessity to the community as a whole.”