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The tree of Liberty needs to be watered from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Thomas Jefferson

We're suffering from saturation, overkill. The market place is flooded by demand, and there are too many films, so everything gets watered down. Demand is the boss and everything bends to that will. Bigger and not necessarily better shows seem to be the order of the day. I can't watch most of them.

Ridley Scott

We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.

Tom Stoppard

We're expecting that the new plan will look similar to Alternative 6 in terms of amount of new development. Our concern is that the environmental programs will be watered down or weakened ... And that will be clearly unacceptable.

John Friedrich

The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.

Robert Fulghum

. . . first in myth, later in reality, passion and violence watered my root soil.

Roy Wilkins

There's a risk the statement will be watered down. This will be negative for interest rates, the yield gap will narrow further, and the Australian dollar will go down.

Richard Grace

Polluters have mounted a public pressure campaign, even enlisting some members of Congress, to lobby EPA to weaken the law even more. For the sake of our lakes and streams and the wildlife and people who depend on them, the law needs to be strengthened, not watered down.

Andy Buchsbaum

In the case of Sudan, the Sudanese government's presence on the commission meant that African states and others watered down language that human rights groups around the world thought appropriate to address crimes against humanity.

Peggy Hicks

I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

Bible

I'm originally from Ohio. We didn't worry about water or the texture of the soil, ... The first year we were here, I watered, watered, watered. The bushes were all in raised beds. I thought the water would drain away. When I pulled them out, the roots were black and the ground smelled sour.

Larry Bell

I've learned a great deal about music through my experiences. I've learned of its sanctity. Of its holiness. I've learned that music is a very powerful force, not to be trivialized or watered down or maufactured into soul-less, mindless drivel. Selling out to the corporate butcher would secure me a nice little place in hell, I knew. So I determined early on to make it on my own.

Christine Anderson

You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered.

Antoine de Saint Exupery

It gives other schools an opportunity. People say it's watered down, but so what? Take advantage of it. In 15 years, is anyone going to talk about Walther or Immaculate Conception going Downstate in the multiplier year? No, because everybody will be used to it.

Jason Nichols

I hope people are buying into the unique script and characters. We realized as the process unfolded that the studios would make a watered-down version of what we wanted to do. A watered-down version of The Darwin Awards wouldn't be funny.

Finn Taylor

We're interested in doing something that expresses what the students on campus have to say. Those of us involved right now, we're not interested in doing a watered-down publication that is not a voice of the students.

Ben Digman

There is a very real risk that Koizumi's plans to reform the banking sector will be so watered down that they will end up pleasing no one.

Koichi Seki

To maximize the value landscaping adds to your home, you must walk a fine line. If your lawn looks like you've never watered, mowed, weeded or fertilized it, a buyer may see it as too much work to bring it up to snuff. On the other hand, if you've gone overboard with shrubs, floral displays and excessive plantings, it will also look difficult to maintain.

Scott Seiler

My team rocks. With everything that was going on, we had those dogs upstairs, bathed, fed and watered.

Patryce Mendoza

I cried a little bit in the race car on the way to the checkered flag. Well, maybe not cried, but at least my eyes watered up.

Dale Earnhardt Jr

Remember, there are so many golf tournaments that they tend to get watered down.

Cindy Love

There are just some people who don't believe women can do this until they watch us play a game, ... It's not a watered-down version. It's real football.

Angela Edwards

I'm not sure what good it would do to expand the curriculum if the courses are watered down or your teachers aren't qualified to teach them.

David Reschke

It's India-inspired, but the styles are watered down. There's only a touch of India.

Nazila Sawhney

This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and the gospel is free.

Richard Allen

There were a lot of amendments that would have watered down the bill so it got stalled.

Debra Cohen

That's a good thing. That's how you should look at football. If you don't have anything to compare, you start to cheer for watered-down things. If you don't have standard bearers then you're going to allow mediocrity to be looked at as great.

Carl Banks

I got a little emotional. I mean, my eyes watered up a little bit. I didn't think I was going to get called first round, but I'm glad I did. I don't know what to say. I'm speechless.

Sherill Baker

They say No Child Left Behind should be watered down, schools can't handle change, some children just can't learn. We say, do not underestimate our public schools, do not underestimate our teachers, and never underestimate our children.

Rod Paige

Students are finishing with Mickey Mouse credits. If these are watered down, 10 years from now we will be where we are now.

Sharif Shakrani

We had them tied to the park fence and gave them enough rope so that they could eat. We had feed buckets from the stable and we were keeping them fed and watered and exercised, and we'd let them graze. I was walking in chest-high water and carrying feed and making sure they ate.

Lucian Mitchell Sr

We have watered the trees that blossom in the summer-time. Now let's sprinkle those whose flowering time is past. That will be the better deed, because we shall not be working for the reward.

Kalidasa

There is plenty of good in there. But it's been quite watered down, and many things have been left to be decided later.

Nadim Shehadi

Blair can do a little bit more to bring people on board. But they've already watered it down so totally that it almost doesn't reform anything.

Philip Cowley

Nothing that had real substantive punch in the government's original proposal was watered down. The government's filing today is designed to give Microsoft the sense that the process in the remedy phase was carried out correctly, and it provides the judge with ammunition that he could use as a rationale for the measures contained in his final ruling.

William Kovacic

I think the reason they think it's softer because they're hitting 8-irons [yesterday] and they were hitting 6-irons there [Wednesday]. We haven't watered any of the greens.

Brian Anderson

We're not happy with the political compromise that has watered down the deal and so we won't see price decreases before autumn 2008.

Karsten Keunecke

It's a big message. This is the real deal. It's not watered-down money.

Nancy Brinker