"We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire."

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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

Fire, Destruction, Beauty, Curiosity

"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

Fire, Housework, Theory

"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

Fire, Jealousy, Needs, Passion

"My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet."

Mason Cooley, American Writer

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"And everything burned in blue, everything a star."

Pablo Neruda, Chilean Writer

Fire, Wonder, Intensity, Vision, Transformation

"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire."

Richard M. Nixon, American President

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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

Fire, Painting

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

Catherine Helen Spence, Australian Author

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"Fire has impacted every part of our lives - without fire, there would be no shopping, right? - that's how the Internet will intrude on our lives, particularly our kids' lives."

Jay Chiat, American Businessman

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"I've lost a little bit of my fire... I don't want to say I've lost my passion."

Roger Clemens, American Athlete

Fire, Passion, Want

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"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."

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"People in a hurry cannot think cannot grow nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility."

Observation

"A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time."

Time

"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them."

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"Anger is the prelude to courage."

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"The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist."

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"It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living."

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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?"

"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."

"My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet."

"And everything burned in blue, everything a star."

"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire."

"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."

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

"Fire has impacted every part of our lives - without fire, there would be no shopping, right? - that's how the Internet will intrude on our lives, particularly our kids' lives."

"I've lost a little bit of my fire... I don't want to say I've lost my passion."

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"Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature."

"Power corrupts the few while weakness corrupts the many."

"Ideas have significance for him only as a prelude to action."

"You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you."

"People in a hurry cannot think cannot grow nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility."

"A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time."

"People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them."

"Anger is the prelude to courage."

"The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist."

"It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living."