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

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

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"It takes two flints to make a fire."

Louisa May Alcott, American Novelist

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"Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire."

Solomon Ibn Gabirol, Spanish Poet

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"Today I make time to release any burdens that I carry. One by one I release them into the atmosphere, until my body is in a complete state of calm."

Renae A. Sauter, American Writer

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"I did mostly good things, except light things on fire."

Mark Hoppus, American Musician

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"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?"

Max Muller, German Educator

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

Richard M. Nixon, American President

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"If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?"

Imran Khan, Pakistani Athlete

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"You know me, I've got to find some way to get a fresh fire."

Garth Brooks, American Musician

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"Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets."

Rudyard Kipling, English Writer

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"To me, innovations are the wheel, fire, language, movable type. There are not 3 million innovations; there are 3 million inventions."

Dean Kamen, American Inventor

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"When people are bored it is primarily with themselves."

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"Our sense of power is more vivid when we break a man's spirit than when we win his heart."

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"It is by its promise of a sense of power that evil often attracts the weak."

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"Faith is primarily a process of identification the process by which the individual ceases to be himself and becomes part of something eternal."

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"Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives."

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"The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything."

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"Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain whether of our worth or worthlessness we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage."

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"The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready is he to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause."

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"The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves."

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"An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head."

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