"Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire."

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"We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette."

Ed Markey, American Politician

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"O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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

Harry Houdini, Hungarian Entertainer

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"I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted."

Rachel Field, American Novelist

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"There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments."

Bobby Scott, American Politician

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"When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes."

Dylan Thomas, Welsh Poet

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"I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames."

Andy Goldsworthy, British Artist

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"In open range fires it is about picking a spot and hoping it is the right location. At the head of the fire you have to worry about wind and humidity and a number of other factors."

John Glover, American Actor

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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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"I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly."

Ty Cobb, American Athlete

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"Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy."

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"We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette."

"O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention."

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

"I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted."

"There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments."

"When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes."

"I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames."

"In open range fires it is about picking a spot and hoping it is the right location. At the head of the fire you have to worry about wind and humidity and a number of other factors."

"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."

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"Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details."

"There is nothing permanent except change."

"It is hard to contend against one's heart's desire; for whatever it wishes to have it buys at the cost of soul."

"Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy."

"To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do."