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"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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"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire."
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"They were fun days, and we set the town on fire with every movie we did."
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"I'd like to be able to light the fire a little bit."
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"Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire."
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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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"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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"Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection."
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"When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes."
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"There are two kinds of directors: There's the kind where two plus two equals four, and you have to help them figure it out. And then there's the kind that throws you in a room, locks the door, sets the house on fire and films it."
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"In the power of fixing the attention lies the most precious of the intellectual habits."
Power
"We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days."
Wisdom
"Rising health care spending occurs because it is beneficial, not a burden on the economy."
Health
"In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best."
Thought
"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
"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
"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
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