"We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river."

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"We set the town on fire and burned down every house as a warning to other small towns along the river."

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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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George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

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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."

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"In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable."

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"Man is remembered by his deeds."

Legacy

"But it is neither cannon nor bayonet that will do the worst damage to this city. No, this place will remember the war against our government just as long as there are inhabitants here."

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"You must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong."

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"Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi."

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"It is in Virginia and Georgia that the war now rages and where it will continue; for at these points - Richmond and Atlanta - the enemy's main strength is concentrated."

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"I know that money speaks more loudly than need."

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"Gen. Banks has issued an order for the instruction of Negro children. Schoolhouses are to be built or rented and Teachers hired for this purpose, and the farmers and planters are to pay the Taxes in support of this."

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"Mess is fairly good. It is like what is found in American hotels except for cake and pie."

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"You say that your hope is in God, and he will, I am sure, stand by you. But you must not forget that you have been given worldly means to use and employ against human arrogance and wrong; it is necessary to see such things with a broad mind in order to oppose them."

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