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"Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit."
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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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"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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"I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me."
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"If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?"
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"It takes two flints to make a fire."
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"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire."
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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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"Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation."
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"Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire."
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"The way those clubs shift against Ted Williams, I can't understand how he can be so stupid not to accept the challenge to him and hit to left field."
Challenge
"I may have been fierce, but never low or underhand."
Fierce
"Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher."
Theory
"To get along with me, don't increase my tension."
Tension
"Don't come home a failure."
Home
"Speed is a great asset; but it's greater when it's combined with quickness - and there's a big difference."
Difference
"I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch."
Life
"The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves."
War
"I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor."
College
"I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly."
Fire
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