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water can

Noun

Meaning

Any one of several species of Nuphar; the yellow frog lily; -- so called from the shape of the seed vessel. See Nuphar, and cf. Candock.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Digital files cannot be made uncopyable, any more than water can be made not wet. Bruce Schneier

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

A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill. Theodore White

Only in water can you learn to swim. Czechoslovakian Proverb

Dripping water can eat through a stone. Chinese Proverb

Water can float a boat or sink it. Darkovan Proverb

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