"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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"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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"We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette."

Ed Markey, American Politician

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"O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"In open range fires it is about picking a spot and hoping it is the right location. At the head of the fire you have to worry about wind and humidity and a number of other factors."

John Glover, American Actor

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"Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets."

Rudyard Kipling, English Writer

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"When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire."

David Bowie, English Musician

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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

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"A little before noon I sent orders to all my batteries to open fire through the streets or at any points where the troops were seen about the city, as a diversion in favor of Jackson."

James Longstreet, American Soldier

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"Reign of Fire is something I know how to do, because I've played tough so much."

Izabella Scorupco, Polish Actress

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

J. B. Yeats, Irish Artist

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"Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source."

Andy Goldsworthy, British Artist

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"Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long."

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"An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it."

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"Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself."

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"If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do."

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"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."

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"I want to be all used up when I die."

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"We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth."

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"Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it."

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"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."

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