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like water

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like water

(simile) Abundantly; consumed rapidly or found in great quantity.
He throws great parties: the beer flows like water.
We will invade the village, and the blood will flow like water.
In our house we go through paper towels like water.

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Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo. Bruce Lee

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend. Bruce Lee

There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream. Colum McCann

Children's love is like water in a basket. Argentinean Proverb

He is like water shaking in a wash tub. Hungarian Proverb

To a man wine is like water is to the boat; it can carry him or guzzle him up. Thai Proverb

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