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• There is no way across the fissure.
• There is no longer any way across the chasm.
• Never try to walk across a river just because it has an average depth of four feet.
  -- Martin Friedma...
• It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went. -- Henry David Thoreau
• If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the Headline that afternoon would read
  PRESIDENT CAN'T SWIM. -- Lyndon B. Johnso...
• Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river.
  Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks of the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current what each had learned from birth....
• Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river.
  Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks of the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current what each had learned from birth....
• The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.