SOUTH AFRICAN WATER LAW Between thinking and doing there is an ocean. Tuscan Proverb " No matter what a man's past may have been, his future is spotless." Philippians 3:13 "The proper response to variability is insurance not denial." Anonymous "In life there are two kinds of people. There are those who do the work and then there are those who try to claim the credit. Always strive to be in the first group; there is much less competition." Ghandi "The State Engineer of New Mexico is so imbued in its own mythology it will not accept the reality of history" Anonymous Attorney "The State Engineer has been trying to petrify their own fictions for decades" Anonymous Attorney Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away -
George Carlin “Only the educated are free." Epictetus 55AD-135AD "Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the people doing it." Chinese Proverb "Thought and action must never part company." Hannah Arendt "He who faces no calamity gains no courage." Rudyard Kipling "Water is no longer perceived as a gift from God, but a commodity for which one has to pay. Water will become like oil one day, I have no doubt about it." Dr. Isabel Al-Assar MacLeans Magazine November 24, 2005 "Water drives men to drink with their enemies." Unknown "Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property." Jean De La Bruyere "I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
- John Cage "Das Prinzip aller Dinge ist das Wasser. Aus Wasser ist alles, und ins Wasser kehrt alles zurück" Thales von Milet, 600 v. Chr. "A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain."
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