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• All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full. -- Ecclesiastes, i, 7
• How did the great rivers and seas gain dominion over the hundred lesser streams?
  By being lower than they. -- Lao Tzu...
• What I lack in humility I more than make up for in honesty.
• Only actions give to life its strength, as only moderation gives it its charm. -- J. P. Richte
• Know from the bounteous heaven all riches flow
• What flavor?!? Its a bloody sea bird, innit?!?
• The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea.
  This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable. -- Rachel Carso...
• Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
  John Lubbock...
• Pride invites calamity; humility reaps its harvest.