"The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant."

Fire, Quotations, Trouble

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"The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant."

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"Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit."

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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."

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

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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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"Even in moments of tranquility, Murray Walker sounds like a man whose trousers are on fire."

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"Playing to me, in those years, sounded like a house on fire."

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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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"To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all."

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"Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear."

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"Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former."

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