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  • Upon those that step into the same rivers different and different waters flow. They scatter and gather, come together and flow away, approach and depart.

    -Heraclitus   fl.500
    c.500  BC  Quoted in Kirk, Raven and Schofield (eds)  The Presocratic Philosophers (1957), ch.6. Often quoted as 'It is not possible to step into the same river twice', from Plato, Cratylus 402a.

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