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"My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet."
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Personal Development
"Storytelling is what lights my fire."
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Personal Development
"I realized, when I saw the forest burning, how fascinating the firelight is. It's beautiful, and people stare at it, don't they? It destroys and kills people, but humans love it. Is it because they crave their own destruction, Sam? I want to understand your kind. I am going out into the wider world, and I must learn."
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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 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?"
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Personal Development
"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?"
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"I always wanted to fire rays out of my fingertips."
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Personal Development
""Yes we can" always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls."
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"I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers."
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"You know me, I've got to find some way to get a fresh fire."
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"Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion."
Truth
"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret."
Life
"I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel."
Age
"Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious."
Thought
"Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life."
Life
"Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin."
Systems
"Charm is the quality in others, that makes us more satisfied with ourselves."
Quality
"To do easily what is difficult for others is the mark of talent. To do what is impossible for talent is the mark of genius."
Talent
"There is no respect for others without humility in one's self."
Humility
"The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings."
Man
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