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"If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience."
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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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"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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"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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"Always give them the old fire, even when you feel like a squashed cake of ice."
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"It takes two flints to make a fire."
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"The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots."
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"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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"Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody."
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"To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'"
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"What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?"
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"The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are."
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"If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience."
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"Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you."
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"If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone."
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"The examined life is no picnic."
Life

"I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test."
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"Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some."
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