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Letter "H" » hold water
«Globalization is not something we can hold off or turn off . . . it is the economic equivalent of a force of nature -- like wind or water.»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
| Keywords:
economic, equivalent, Force of Nature, globalization, hold off, hold water, turn off
«The human brain now holds the key to our future. We have to recall the image of the planet from outer space: a single entity in which air, water, and continentsare interconnected. That is our home.»
Author: David Suzuki
| Keywords:
air, air space, continents, entities, entity, holds, hold water, human brain, image, interconnected, outer, outer space, planet, recall, recalling, space, The Image
«Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can complain that it doesn't hold water»
«All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.»
«In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her fertile fields-her beautiful rivers-her mighty lakes and star-crowned mountains. But my rapture is soon checked when I remember that all is cursed with the infernal spirit of slave-holding and wrong; When I remember that with the waters of her noblest rivers, the tears of my brethren are borne to the ocean, disregarded and forgotten; That her most fertile fields drink daily of the warm blood of my outraged sisters, I am filled with unutterable loathing.»
Author: Frederick Douglass
(Abolitionist, Author, Lecturer, Slave)
| About:
Slavery
| Keywords:
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«>Rachel, Ross, Pheobe and Joey are outside Monica and Chandlers door< Ross: Okay we will do rock paper scissors to deicde who goes in first. Rachel: Right. Ross: One, Two, Three>Ross does paper, Rachel does scissors and Pheobe does rock< Joey: >waggles his fingers in the air< heh heh! Ross: What is that? Joey: It's fire! It beats everything. Pheobe: Not water balloon! >holds her hand over Joeys< tsh! Joey: Oh yeah. >a note slides out from underneath Monica and Chandlers door< Ross: >reads the note< We know you out there. Joey: >reading the note over Ross' shoulder< Who do you think sent it?»
Author: Friends
| Keywords:
balloon, balloons, first water, hand over, hold water, in the air, joey, Monica, note, Oh Yeah, okay, Rachel, reads, Ross, scissor, scissors, shoulder, slides, sliding door, TSH, underneath, waggle, yeah
«Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water»
Author: Swedish Proverb
| Keywords:
bucket, buckets, holds, hold water, new one, The New, throw, throwing away, thrown-away, throw away
«For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.»
«Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.»
«... the hydrostatic paradox of controversy. Don't you know what that means? Well, I will tell you. You know that, if you had a bent tube, one arm of which was of the size of a pipe-stem, and the other big enough to hold the ocean, water would stand at the same height in one as in the other. Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way. And the fools know it.»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Humorist, Physician, Poet, Professor, Writer)
| Keywords:
arm, bent, controversy, equalize, equalized, equalizes, equalizing, height, hold water, hydrostatic, one-armed, paradox, pipe, The Tube, tube, tubes, Wise Men
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