“Modern restaurant cooking is first and foremost a boat that, as in a Saul Steinberg drawing, steams its way downriver from the thousand dreamy islands of alcohol to the wide beckoning current of caffeine, from the stress-busting drink to the reawakening demitasse. A modern French meal not including both…is impossible to imagine. Dinner with water is dinner for prisoners.”

Adam Gopnik

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“Family is like water—it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.”

Colum McCann

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“One drop of water can accomplish very little, but hundreds of millions of drops can cut through rock or, indeed, change the face of the Earth.”

Swami Sivananda Radha

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“People who habitually drink water become just as good gourmets about water as wine drinkers about wine. For fifty or sixty years of my life, I have drunk only water, and no lover of wine has ever felt the same delight in some Grand-Laffite or Chambertin as I have in a glass of cool spring water whose purity has not been tainted by any earthy salts.”

Alexandre Dumas

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“Mantra is not a magic pill; rather it is like a steady stream of water that gradually wears down the hardest stone.”

Swami Sivananda Radha

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“Nowhere—not on these marshes or in the coves or out along the mudflats—is it a good idea to trivialize the power of the water.”

Susan Hand Shetterly

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