"Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements."

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"Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements."

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"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."

Michael Grant, American Author

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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?"

Erma Bombeck, American Journalist

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"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."

George Eliot, British Author

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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."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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"My pamphlet did not set the Torrens on fire."

Catherine Helen Spence, Australian Author

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""Yes we can" always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls."

Craig Shirley, American Author

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"In an era when information can be sent instantaneously anywhere, it is utterly nonsensical that our Nation's police, the fire, and EMS personnel cannot consistently communicate with each other."

Bill Pascrell, American Politician

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"Man needs colour to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water."

Fernand Leger, French Artist

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"I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me."

Dinah Shore, American Actress

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

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Cause

"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."

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"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

"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."

Church

"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

"Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline."

May

"It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer."

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"The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed."

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"The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance."

Performance

"But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath."

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