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"Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit."
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Personal Development
"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."
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Personal Development
"There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism."
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"I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me."
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"If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?"
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Personal Development
"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire."
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"My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?"
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"Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation."
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"Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire."
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"Playing to me, in those years, sounded like a house on fire."
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"In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits."
Power
"Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation."
Fire
"We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days."
Wisdom
"Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history."
History
"Rising health care spending occurs because it is beneficial, not a burden on the economy."
Health
"Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom."
Authority
"A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide, and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity."
Friendship
"In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best."
Thought
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