"Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire."

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"Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire."

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"I realized, when I saw the forest burning, how fascinating the firelight is. It's beautiful, and people stare at it, don't they? It destroys and kills people, but humans love it. Is it because they crave their own destruction, Sam? I want to understand your kind. I am going out into the wider world, and I must learn."

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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?"

Erma Bombeck, American Journalist

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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."

George Eliot, British Author

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"My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet."

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"And everything burned in blue, everything a star."

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"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire."

Richard M. Nixon, American President

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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."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"My pamphlet did not set the Torrens on fire."

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"Fire has impacted every part of our lives - without fire, there would be no shopping, right? - that's how the Internet will intrude on our lives, particularly our kids' lives."

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"No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right."

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"It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'."

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"The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands."

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"Bigotry and intolerance, silenced by argument, endeavors to silence by persecution, in old days by fire and sword, in modern days by the tongue."

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"Integrity is the first step to true greatness. Men love to praise, but are slow to practice it. To maintain it in high places costs self-denial; in all places it is liable to opposition, but its end is glorious, and the universe will yet do it homage."

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"For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame."

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"Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power."

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