"It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake."

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"It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake."

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

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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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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"Storytelling is what lights my fire."

Hope Davis, American Actress

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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."

Michael Grant, American Author

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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

Fire, Painting

"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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"What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?"

Max Muller, German Educator

Fire, Light, Reality, Reflection

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

Len Wein, American Cartoonist

Fire,

""Yes we can" always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls."

Craig Shirley, American Author

Fire, Girls

"I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers."

Nancy Cartwright, American Actress

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"The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion."

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"At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed."

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"Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done."

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"I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs."

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"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."

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

"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."

"Storytelling is what lights my fire."

"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."

"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?"

"What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?"

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

""Yes we can" always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls."

"I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers."

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"The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion."

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"At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed."

"Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done."

"I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs."

"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe."

"The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery."

"Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work."

"One and God make a majority."

"Without a struggle, there can be no progress."