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"You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech."
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"The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant."
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Personal Development
"Reign of Fire is something I know how to do, because I've played tough so much."
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"Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire."
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"The best training is to play by ear: trial by fire."
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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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"I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say."
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"I caught on fire twice on the stage, but I was promptly put out. It was just my leg."
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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."
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"What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again."
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"It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline."
Family
"He said there is 80 of us, ready to come down and the next thing I knew is that Jo Brown dashed in and said your family has already moved and you have to move, the boat is ready to take you out. I didn't have time to ask, even ask a question."
Family
"It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time."
Leadership
"The first money I have been offered was as District Officer Ba."
Money
"If the constitution goes, I go."
Constitution
"Whom am I going to trust if I have to back again."
Trust
"I was the deputy Chairman of the Democratic Union of the Pacific, and we started at 8 I think and I was called to the telephone and to be told there's a coup, the government has been overthrown - it was round about 9, 10 when the Parliament sat they had done then."
Government
"I thought they know that I was the Commander in Chief, not that I know that I am the Commander in Chief, and they should behave; know how to behave to the Commander in Chief."
Thought
"How could I stand by and watch my house on fire?"
Fire
"Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups."
Military
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