"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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"You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech."

Franklin P. Jones, American Journalist

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"The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant."

Karl Kraus, Austrian Writer

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Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Spanish Poet

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"It takes two flints to make a fire."

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"The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool."

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"The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire."

Edgar Allan Poe, American Poet

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"I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion."

Zane Grey, American Author

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"To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes."

James Dickey, American Novelist

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"I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips."

Len Wein, American Cartoonist

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"Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source."

Andy Goldsworthy, British Artist

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"Education is the cheap defense of nations."

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"If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived."

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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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"But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint."

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"You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech."

"The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant."

"Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire."

"It takes two flints to make a fire."

"The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool."

"The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire."

"I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion."

"To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes."

"I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips."

"Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source."

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"Education is the cheap defense of nations."

"If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived."

"Superstition is the religion of feeble minds."

"War never leaves where it found a nation."

"But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint."

"What shadows we are what shadows we pursue!"

"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants."

"Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits."

"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."