"Bottled water costs about 2000 times more than tap water. Can you imagine paying 2000 times the price of anything else? How about a $ 10,000 sandwich?"

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Source : "The Story of Bottled Water", www.imdb.com. 2010.

Annie Leonard

#Water Quotes #Cost Quotes #Sandwiches Quotes

“Your feelings will guide you if you have the courage to tap into them and listen.”
“Be hole, be dust, be dream, be wind/Be night, be dark, be wish, be mind,/Now slip, now slide, now move unseen,/Above, beneath, betwixt, between.”
“ClichÃ©s are static, the emotion behind them long spent. If you are tempted to use them, here is a saying of my motherâ€™s: Fang pi bu-cho, cho pi bu-fang. Basically that translates to: "Loud farts donâ€™t stink, and the really smelly ones donâ€™t make a sound." In other words: When youâ€™re full of beans, you just blow a lot of hot air. If you want to have a real impact, be deadly but silent. Oh, also recognize the difference between a bad clichÃ© and a good quotation. My motherâ€™s saying is a good quotation. You should use it often.”
“Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.”

Source : Jonathan Mayhew (1750). “A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-resistance to the Higher Powers: With Some Reflections on the Resistance Made to King Charles I, and on the Anniversary of His Death: in which the Mysterious Doctrine of the Princes' Saintship and Martyrdom is Unriddled: the Substance of which was Delivered in a Sermon Preached in the West Meeting-house in Boston the Lord's-day After the 30th of January, 1749/50...”, p.29
“If you're mad at your kid, you can either raise him to be a nose tackle or send him out to play on the freeway. It's about the same.”
“Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy -- and it is also the open window embedded in those bricks.”

Source : Speech at the UN's World Press Freedom Day, May 3, 2001.
“Laughter... is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because the jokes are funny but because your own condition is funny.”
“Water is the driving force of all nature.”

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