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J. B. Yeats

"Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint."

J. B. Yeats, Irish Artist
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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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Mason Cooley, American Writer
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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."

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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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"I've lost a little bit of my fire... I don't want to say I've lost my passion."

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"Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire."

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