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"My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet."
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"I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips."
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Personal Development
"It takes two flints to make a fire."
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Personal Development
"You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"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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"To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes."
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"I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists."
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"We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire."
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Personal Development
"But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together."
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"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret."
Life
"Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life."
Life
"Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious."
Thought
"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."
Age
"Order is power."
Power
"Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence."
Truth
"Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness."
Family
"Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark."
Possibility
"The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms."
Man
"Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle."
Family
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