"One does not set fire to a world which is already lost."

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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

Fire, Heaven, Invention

"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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"When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire."

David Bowie, English Musician

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"Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being."

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"There are thoughts we must not think."

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"Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason."

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"Truth is always a delusion."

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"I am a man, and God is hiding from us humans. We are unable to see Him, we can only search for Him."

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"For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence."

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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."

"When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire."

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"Everything in the world can be changed, my dear Florestan, but the human being."

"People like us who are on their last leg can only understand comedies."

"There are thoughts we must not think."

"Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason."

"Truth is always a delusion."

"I am a man, and God is hiding from us humans. We are unable to see Him, we can only search for Him."

"Justice is horrible."

"Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age."

"In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect."

"For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence."