Of course, Ankh-Morpork's citizens had always claimed that the river water was incredibly pure. Any water that had passed through so many kidneys, they reasoned, had to be very pure indeed.
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Related As pure water poured into pure water becomes the very same, so does the Self of the illumined man or... KATHA UPANISHAD Speech emanating from a pure heart and mind of learned men and scholars are naturally pure just like... YAJUR VEDA Poets have tried to describe Ankh-Morpork. They have failed. Perhaps it's the sheer zestful vitality... TERRY PRATCHETT There are many zoonotic agents in wildlife that can be passed to humans through water, LEON RUSSELL Water used to be fresh, pure and drinkable, now the water has lots of fecal matter and bacteria. CLAUDINE SIERRA Their cats were filthy with muck from the flood waters. The water came from the Napa River which has... CATHERINE CORNEJO The district was closed after the village informed me there were breaks in the water system and the ... JAMES AVERY He found that he had this sudden desperate longing for the fuming, smoky streets of Ankh-Morpork, wh... TERRY PRATCHETT But, for all that, they had a very pleasant walk. The trees were bare of leaves, and the river was b... CHARLES DICKENS It had to be pure and dust-free -- it pours like water at times in the piece -- and we brought it in... CRYSTAL BREWE I have always had a very natural connection to the water, and that connection stems from the ocean i... AARON PEIRSOL We all had this panicked look, ... That was the place of last refuge and where the majority of peopl... ROYCE OSBORN For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that ... LEWIS CARROLL For you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that v... LEWIS CARROLL Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy ... TERRY PRATCHETT The air was so fresh and nice and pure. (But) it was difficult to put on enough clothes to stay warm... BILLY CASPER Water which is too pure has no fish AFGHAN PROVERB I had a very simple, unremarkable and happy life. And I grew up in a very small town. And so my life... ISHMAEL BEAH The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that ... BEN C. BRADLEE When we got married in the early '50s, Judy was still very beautiful. She was only 5 foot tall — j... SID LUFT When we got married in the early '50s, Judy was still very beautiful, ... She was only 5 foot tall �... SID LUFT What a pure blessing it was to have a bath in a tub alone in a room where all you had to do was pump... NANCY E. TURNER Man has always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much...... DOUGLAS ADAMS We had always segregated sex from feeling and from intellectual love, so you were either pure and vi... AZAR NAFISI It’s hillbilly urine; we had better get home before they come to eat us.” Kevin said pointing to... KIM CORMACK An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate. CRISS JAMI There was some potential for backflow, which could have caused contamination. Plus, the river was tu... BLAIN POULIOT For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins... DOUGLAS ADAMS For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins... DOUGLAS ADAMS Don't use tap water to make your colloidal silver. Use pure distilled water only. And don't ... STAN JONES Jill... had explained homosexuality, after Mike had read about it and failed to grok--and had given ... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN A sky as pure as water bathed the stars and brought them out ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY Most of the people who are coming to Australia by boat have passed through several countries on the ... TONY ABBOTT Networking is pure spring water from which an endless flow of people bubble up. LILY CHATTERJEE If your fiancé or fiancée asked why you love them so much. Remember to say to them no one can expl... PALITHA ARIYARATHNA Sebastian says modestly that though his twin resembled him very much , she was reputed to be beautif... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Scientists want to search for alien signals because that's what gets them publicity. They are like J... MANU JOSEPH It's just amazing that we had one. For a stingray to have a baby and to be even bred they have to ha... ERICKA NIEMANN We would have said the Nazis were evil in any event, since we had decided to fight them. This has al... KURT VONNEGUT JR. I was amazed at how soft it was. I know they haven't had a lot of rain, so they put some water on it... D.A. WEIBRING A sympathetic heart is like a spring of pure water bursting forth from the mountain side. ANONYMOUS Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civili... THOMAS JEFFERSON Tears had poured from her eyes without any change in her facial expression. It’s pure pain and pur... RENEE CARLINO The voice had an extraordinary sadness. Pure from all body, pure from all passion, going out into th... VIRGINIA WOOLF I didn't know how to explain to him that for all that I still looked young, I had been feeling old. ... CHRISTINA HENRY I still had a lot of cards that didn't get ruined. I had a lot of stuff at home. But cards don't tak... BRAD BARBER He was sad because he had grown up, and because the years passed like a river that no man could stop... JAMES T. FARRELL The water was pure and cold and came out of the Apennines tasting like snow melted in the hands of a... PAT CONROY If you dam a river it stagnates. Running water is beautiful water. So be a channel. ENGLISH PROVERB I think I could, if I only knew how to begin. For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happen... LEWIS CARROLL I was surprised that the water didn't come up after the rains we had Monday. But so far, things have... BUD GARSKE Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, h... JIM YONG KIM Citizens will not understand what a quality detective has passed through our doors, ... He cannot be... EARL COOK We have been lucky. We have had a plentiful low-cost supply of water for a while. But it won't alway... LARRY DOZIER He had a whale of a game. And there weren't many shots that he took that were uncontested through th... JIM ROBERTS If everyone had one of these, it would reduce the amount of water that the whole society uses. And i... MARILYN BAKER There had been a time in Godfrey's life when, had she stood before him in all her splendor, he would... GEORGE MACDONALD His lines had been honed over centuries, passed down through generations, for poor people needed cer... KIRAN DESAI There flows throughout our whole history a stream of humanity, of generosity, of tolerance, so broad... IGNACE PADEREWSKI As she had been walking from the ward to that room, she had felt such pure hatred that now she had n... PAULO COELHO Alex is one of the single most talented swimmers I've had a chance to coach. He was born with a feel... AL BOELK Ankh-Morpork! Pearl of cities! This is not a completely accurate description, of course — it was n... TERRY PRATCHETT All she had ahead of her was the cold water, the slow ballet. LAUREN GROFF They had no place to get water, get gas, go to the bathroom. JOAN HARRIS That was pure instincts. That wasn't premeditated at all. I was just trying to be a playmaker. I had... REGGIE BUSH The discussion is about water in the river. We have a right to our water in the river within the con... DENNIS LOPEZ I doubt if he ever confronted and acknowledged his own deeper motivations, except when they were as ... DAN SIMMONS We've always had it in our minds that in five years we had to be champions, ... Of course, we would ... ANTONIO CUE We are going through an unprecedented situation. Romania has never had such water levels. MADALIN MIHAILOVICI This is, without any wind, a very tough golf course today. Even though we had low scores today, ther... PHIL MICKELSON If they had resources, they would not be killing each other over grazing ground and water. WANGARI MAATHAI Disney had such a hold on the mind of America-they were Adolf Hitler. The whole country thought Disn... RALPH BAKSHI Mediaeval mythology, rich and gorgeous, is a compound like Corinthian brass, into which many pure or... SABINE BARING-GOULD We find that the short length of the gully features implies they did form under conditions similar t... JENNIFER HELDMANN We had a good scouting report. But we really didn't know that Gerty was that good. Then they were go... BRYAN HARRIS A pure soul always finds love. Even through hate, they will always find the ability to claim love. TILLIE COLE As long as I have rice to eat, and pure water to drink, I can find joy within. CONFUCIUS But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was ... GEORGE ORWELL The lights were off so that his heads could avoid looking at each other because neither of them was ... DOUGLAS ADAMS He was always willing to listen to whatever you had to say. We had a tight floor. [When Colby passed... DAVE PRICE That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery. STEPHEN KING We've had many other instances in history where (governments) had to re-jig expenditures to make sur... MARY WEBB The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is l... RABINDRANATH TAGORE That pipe would never be allowed under any of today's regulations. This was a real huge direct hit t... GUY MARWICK So many thoughts ran through my head. Most of them contained the same, simply three words so often s... ALYSHA SPEER There's not a single country that actually approaches economics in a pure, free market, capitali... DAMBISA MOYO It seems a simple task. We all know what water looks like, feels like in our mouth. Water is ubiquit... BRANDON SANDERSON My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top... JACK WELCH Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in... LUC FERRARI It was almost like a beaver dam, a dam that wasn't supposed to be there was all of a sudden there an... ANDREW BENNETT We had storms come through and we had 25 mile per hour winds. I went down to the lower lake and with... BOYD DUCKETT We are delighted to be able to partner with Wheaton Franciscan as it endeavors to develop a comprehe... PAMELA PURE Music to my blood and bone is what water is to cement. It makes me hard, pure and complete. LARSS VINCENT MCKEVITT Was actually horrible because they had dead bodies and everything else in walkways and stuff. They p... BARBARA TAYLOR For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very... WILHELM OSTWALD It was only a time trial, just me and the water. I don't think it was hard because I had it in my mi... BRANDON GOLDMAN And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had ... WILLIAM SCRANTON There definitely needs to be water on the sidelines for these players, but I also had some Gatorade ... JOHN MADDEN We had not seen any natives for many days, but a few passed the camp on the opposite side of the riv... CHARLES STURT I believe that any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes... BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
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TERRY PRATCHETT The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from... TERRY PRATCHETT Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves ... TERRY PRATCHETT The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who t... TERRY PRATCHETT I got quite annoyed after the Haiti earthquake. A baby was taken from the wreckage and people said i... TERRY PRATCHETT In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this. TERRY PRATCHETT No one's policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head ... TERRY PRATCHETT Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a w... TERRY PRATCHETT At such times the universe gets a little closer to us. They are strange times, times of beginnings a... TERRY PRATCHETT Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken. TERRY PRATCHETT I saved a man's life once," said Granny. "Special medicine, twice a day. Boiled water with a bit of ... TERRY PRATCHETT The Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool and laid-back valle... TERRY PRATCHETT She had heard it said that, before you could understand anybody, you needed to walk a mile in their ... TERRY PRATCHETT His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability wh... TERRY PRATCHETT Just because someone's a member of an ethnic minority doesn't mean they're not a nasty small-minded ... TERRY PRATCHETT Maurice watched them argue again. Humans, eh? Think they're lords of creation. Not like us cats. We ... TERRY PRATCHETT The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last ... TERRY PRATCHETT Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page. TERRY PRATCHETT Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect. TERRY PRATCHETT The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes af... TERRY PRATCHETT Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I'm fortunate; I ... TERRY PRATCHETT It was one of those problematic occasions with long silences, sporadic coughs, and people saying iso... TERRY PRATCHETT Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: 'Or Would You Rather Be ... TERRY PRATCHETT Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder.Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels.Elves are fantasti... TERRY PRATCHETT Rincewind had been told that death was just like going into another room. The difference is, when yo... TERRY PRATCHETT The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf ... TERRY PRATCHETT Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves ar... TERRY PRATCHETT "Why does everyone run toward a blood curdling scream?" mumbled the Senior Wrangler. "It is contrary... TERRY PRATCHETT A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores. TERRY PRATCHETT Sham Harga had run a succesful eatery for many years by always smiling, never extending credit, and ... TERRY PRATCHETT It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If ... TERRY PRATCHETT It could not be happening because this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence coul... TERRY PRATCHETT An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs ... TERRY PRATCHETT A good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read. TERRY PRATCHETT Stupid men are often capable of things the clever would not dare to contemplate... TERRY PRATCHETT The consensus seemed to be that if really large numbers of men were sent to storm the mountain, then... TERRY PRATCHETT For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) ... TERRY PRATCHETT Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his l... TERRY PRATCHETT In the begining there was nothing, and it exploded. TERRY PRATCHETT Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off. TERRY PRATCHETT The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head. TERRY PRATCHETT God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which migh... TERRY PRATCHETT