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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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"It takes two flints to make a fire."

Louisa May Alcott, American Novelist

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

Richard M. Nixon, American President

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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."

H. G. Wells, English Author

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"Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard."

Ed Markey, American Politician

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"I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say."

Ellen Glasgow, American Novelist

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"I'm just calm under fire. I'm not intimidating at all."

Keenen Ivory Wayans, American Comedian

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"You wait until the forest fire is on your front step before you step up."

Peter Dawson, Australian Musician

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"Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire."

Heraclitus, Greek Philosopher

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"One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one."

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"I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio."

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"I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of."

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"I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do."

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"Now the truth of the matter is that there are a lot of things people don't understand. Take the Einstein theory. Take taxes. Take love. Do you understand them? Neither do I. But they exist. They happen."

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"We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?"

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"A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not."

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"The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people."

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"Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well."

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