"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."

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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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"I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted."

Rachel Field, American Novelist

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"There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments."

Bobby Scott, American Politician

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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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"I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames."

Andy Goldsworthy, British Artist

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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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"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."

"I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted."

"There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments."

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

"I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames."

"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."

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"To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult."

"No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune."

"It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him; for the one is only belief - the other contempt."

"In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker."

"To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days."

"Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly."

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"Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself."

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