"Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own."

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"We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette."

Ed Markey, American Politician

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"O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes."

Dylan Thomas, Welsh Poet

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"In open range fires it is about picking a spot and hoping it is the right location. At the head of the fire you have to worry about wind and humidity and a number of other factors."

John Glover, American Actor

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"Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets."

Rudyard Kipling, English Writer

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"When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire."

David Bowie, English Musician

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"I caught on fire twice on the stage, but I was promptly put out. It was just my leg."

Tre Cool, American Musician

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"What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?"

Max Muller, German Educator

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"Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water."

Buffalo Bill, American Celebrity

Fire, Snow, Water

"A little before noon I sent orders to all my batteries to open fire through the streets or at any points where the troops were seen about the city, as a diversion in favor of Jackson."

James Longstreet, American Soldier

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"History is the preceptor of prudence, not principles."

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"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."

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"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."

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"The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure, which I call a state of indifference."

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"The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions."

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"An ignorant man, who is not fool enough to meddle with his clock, is however sufficiently confident to think he can safely take to pieces, and put together at his pleasure, a moral machine of another guise, importance and complexity, composed of far other wheels, and springs, and balances, and counteracting and co-operating powers. Men little think how immorally they act in rashly meddling with what they do not understand. Their delusive good intention is no sort of excuse for their presumption. They who truly mean well must be fearful of acting ill."

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"We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette."

"O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention."

"When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes."

"In open range fires it is about picking a spot and hoping it is the right location. At the head of the fire you have to worry about wind and humidity and a number of other factors."

"Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets."

"When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire."

"I caught on fire twice on the stage, but I was promptly put out. It was just my leg."

"What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?"

"Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water."

"A little before noon I sent orders to all my batteries to open fire through the streets or at any points where the troops were seen about the city, as a diversion in favor of Jackson."

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"History is the preceptor of prudence, not principles."

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"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."

"The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure, which I call a state of indifference."

"The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions."

"Never despair but if you do work on in despair."

"Ambition can creep as well as soar."

"The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny."

"Beauty is the promise of happiness."