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

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"I realized, when I saw the forest burning, how fascinating the firelight is. It's beautiful, and people stare at it, don't they? It destroys and kills people, but humans love it. Is it because they crave their own destruction, Sam? I want to understand your kind. I am going out into the wider world, and I must learn."

Michael Grant, American Author

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"My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?"

Erma Bombeck, American Journalist

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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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"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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"My pamphlet did not set the Torrens on fire."

Catherine Helen Spence, Australian Author

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"Fire has impacted every part of our lives - without fire, there would be no shopping, right? - that's how the Internet will intrude on our lives, particularly our kids' lives."

Jay Chiat, American Businessman

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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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""Yes we can" always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls."

Craig Shirley, American Author

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"The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail."

James Longstreet, American Soldier

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"My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?"

"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."

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

"My pamphlet did not set the Torrens on fire."

"Fire has impacted every part of our lives - without fire, there would be no shopping, right? - that's how the Internet will intrude on our lives, particularly our kids' lives."

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

""Yes we can" always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls."

"The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail."

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"Today's Communism can survive only if it abandons the myth of an infallible party, if it continues to think, and if it becomes democratic."

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"We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior."

"Communism is a proposition to structure the world more reasonably, a proposition for changing the world. As such, we have to analyze it and, if we deem it reasonable, act upon it."

"We are the world."

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

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

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

"Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is."

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