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

Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Spanish Poet

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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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"If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?"

Imran Khan, Pakistani Athlete

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"You know me, I've got to find some way to get a fresh fire."

Garth Brooks, American Musician

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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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"To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions."

Dean Kamen, American Inventor

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"I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists."

Charlie Sheen, American Actor

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"Gamma was a logical progression after doing the Open Fire record."

Ronnie Montrose, American Musician

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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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"Take to every Gallon of Honey, three Gallons of water, and put them both together, and set them over so soft a fire, that you may endure to melt and break the honey with your hands."

Kenelm Digby, English Celebrity

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"Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."

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"Very few people can afford to be poor."

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"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."

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"The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor, he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them."

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"Morality is not respectability."

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"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else."

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"He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature."

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"HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me."

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"A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell."

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