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As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.
Will Self
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The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Mark Twain
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The future is fluid. Each act, each decision, and each development creates new possibilities and eliminates others. The future is ours to direct.
Jacque Fresco
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Decision
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Ours
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Direct
Development
New
New Possibilities
Creates
Act
Each
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
Margaret Fuller
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Woman
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Radical
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Purely
Fact
Masculine
Another
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Passing
Perpetually
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Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
Marquis de Sade
Life
Strength
Revenge
Fluid
Nervous
Cruelty
Ambition
Lust
Other
Supports
Passions
Lends
Avarice
Them
Founded
Gee, what a terrific party. Later on we'll get some fluid and embalm each other.
Neil Simon
Fluid
Party
Other
Later
Gee
Some
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Get
Each
Jesus walking on water is an allegory, not fluid mechanics. God destroying the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah is a warning, not a historical battle. Doubting Thomas is an example, not a person. The story of Noah, with all of its scientific and historical impossibilities, can be read the same way.
Kyle Hill
God
Battle
Water
Fluid
Example
Doubting
Thomas
Way
Destroying
Cities
Allegory
Noah
Read
Scientific
Impossibilities
Historical
Walking
Person
Same
Story
Warning
Mechanics
Jesus
My lens and my personality, it's just fluid. The art isn't just in one place.
Petra Collins
Art
Personality
Fluid
Just
Place
Lens
When student performance shows increases on test scores, that improvement is not associated with an increase in 'fluid intelligence' - that is, using logical thinking and problem solving in novel situations, rather than recalling previously learned facts and skills.
Randi Weingarten
Intelligence
Problem
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Fluid
Thinking
Increase
Increases
Solving
Rather
Student
Facts
Performance
Learned
Test
Test Scores
Scores
Than
Improvement
Situations
Problem-Solving
Skills
Using
Novel
Shows
Recalling
Associated
I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.
Adam Savage
Fluid
Am
Mixture
Standing
Cooling
Now
Gasoline
Sexuality is very fluid, but I never chose to be gay.
Adam Silvera
Gay
Fluid
Sexuality
Never
Very
Chose
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