"No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed."

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Source : Letter to the Young Women of Malolos, February 22, 1889.

Jose Rizal

#Sweet Quotes #Spring Quotes #Water Quotes

“Normally, you would not call ice a mineral.”

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“I'm interested in politics, what's going on in the world, how people behave and how your life is often in the hands of other people.”
“You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.”
“Gertrude Stein's prose-song is a cold, black suet-pudding.... Cut it at any point, it is the same thing ... all fat, without nerve.”
“I can now shed the child-actor thing, like the fat, and start a new career, because no one sees me as Dudley.”

Source : "Harry Potter's Dudley Dursley is all grown up! Actor Harry Melling shows off weight loss at new movie premiere" by Lara Martin, www.mirror.co.uk. February 19, 2017.
“Some people say 'what would happen if we had a Communist Chancellor of the Exchequer?' I would ask in reply, 'what would happen if he had a lot of Fascist or Mosleyite bank chairmen?' In that event it might be thought disadvantageous to have publicity.”
“There were over 40,000 pages of FBI documents of which only about half are currently available to scholars and researchers. I think that this 40th anniversary of the assassination is a good opportunity for us to say that now is the time to declassify all FBI material on Malcolm X. There really is a need for us to challenge the US government for its refusal to open up its own archives 40 years after the death of Malcolm.”
“Suddenly the clouds seem high above us. Theyâ€™re moving over us in an arch, circling the planet. They have seen abysmal oceans and charred, scorched islands. They have seen how we destroyed the world. If I could see everything, as the clouds do, would I swirl around this remaining continent, still so full of color and life and seasons, wanting to protect it? Or would I just laugh at the futility of it all, and meander onward, down the earthâ€™s sloping atmosphere?”

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