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NUMBER:27895
QUOTATION:It is impossible to step into the same river twice.
ATTRIBUTION:Heraclitus (c. 535–475 B.C.), Greek philosopher. Diels-Kranz, fr. 91 (from Plutarch).

Heraclitus, one of the two or three most influential philosophers before Socrates, was known as “the riddler” or “the obscure.”
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