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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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"The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire."
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"They were fun days, and we set the town on fire with every movie we did."
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"I'd like to be able to light the fire a little bit."
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"Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire."
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"I never wanted to set the world on fire. So I never had to burn any bridges behind me."
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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."
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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."
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"There are two kinds of directors: There's the kind where two plus two equals four, and you have to help them figure it out. And then there's the kind that throws you in a room, locks the door, sets the house on fire and films it."
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"Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire."
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"You wait until the forest fire is on your front step before you step up."
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"I would prefer being in a hard battle; however, I will be satisfied with whatever happens to me in this war, if only the country comes out of this peril safe and to the satisfaction of the finest and best government on earth."
Government
"That death was near, I suppose I believed, but I saw it only as a rest after the day's work."
Death
"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."
War
"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."
Purpose
"I know that money speaks more loudly than need."
Money
"Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi."
Land
"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."
Government
"The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us."
Soul
"In the midst of these hard times it is our good health and good sleep that are enjoyable."
Health
"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."
God
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