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

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"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

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

Richard M. Nixon, American President

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"They were fun days, and we set the town on fire with every movie we did."

Burt Lancaster, American Actor

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"I'd like to be able to light the fire a little bit."

Reggie Jackson, American Athlete

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"Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire."

Charles Simmons, American Author

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"I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me."

Dinah Shore, American Actress

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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

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"It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port."

Henry Mayhew, English Journalist

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"Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection."

Richard Bach, American Novelist

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

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"The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual."

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"Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands."

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"The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint."

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"News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news."

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"So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right."

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"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."

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

"They were fun days, and we set the town on fire with every movie we did."

"I'd like to be able to light the fire a little bit."

"Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire."

"I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me."

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

"It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port."

"Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection."

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

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"Power is paradoxical."

"The freedom of each individual can only be the freedom of all."

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

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

"The problems of all of humanity can only be solved by all of humanity."

"The rightful claim to dissent is an existential right of the individual."

"Only the freedom of mind can prevent the state from becoming totalitarian and from issuing totalitarian demands."

"The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint."

"News reports don't change the world. Only facts change it, and those have already happened when we get the news."

"So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right."