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"To cause the face to appear in a mass of flame make use of the following: mix together thoroughly petroleum, lard, mutton tallow and quick lime. Distill this over a charcoal fire, and the liquid which results can be burned on the face without harm."
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"Physical action [paudgalik kriya] will give only worldly fruits; it will not go in vain. If you plant sugar cane, you will eat sweet food and if you plant bitter gourd, you will eat bitter food. Plant whichever taste appeals to you and if you want liberation [Moksha], then don't plant anything. Stop sowing seeds altogether."
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"I don't think any one person is the cause of all of someone else's problems."
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"A cause that only serves me is much like a door on the edge of a cliff, it doesn't open to anywhere good."
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"So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants."
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"This world is not without causes. There is Moksha [ultimate liberation] when one's causes stops. There is Moksha where everyone's 'claim' is completed. Without a cause, effect does not happen."
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"Don't speak of action [effect]. Don't serve the action [effect]. It is a result. But serve the causes [do the causes]. Nothing will be achieved unless you serve the cause."
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"At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid."
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"Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect."
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"I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all."
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"Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future."
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"Only one man ever betrayed my confidence, and that only in a minor matter."
Confidence
"But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years."
Thought
"The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed."
Day
"Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol."
Alcohol
"I think that in a year I may retire. I cannot take my money with me when I die and I wish to enjoy it, with my family, while I live. I should prefer living in Germany to any other country, though I am an American, and am loyal to my country."
Money
"Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat."
Eating
"It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer."
Open
"The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance."
Performance
"My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business."
Business
"How the early priests came into possession of these secrets does not appear, and if there were ever any records of this kind the Church would hardly allow them to become public."
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