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"What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes. Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings-- they are so trite, so threadbare. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot be far wrong. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through fire." »Norman Douglas
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"Man must have fires in his life: fire of love; fire of work; fire of doing kindness... Without fires, man is just a cold rock!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Divorce is a fire exit. When a house is burning, it doesn't matter who set the fire. If there is no fire exit, everyone in the house will be burned!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"What is art Nature concentrated." »Honore' de Balzac
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"I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can." »Michel de Montaigne
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"Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated." »Paulette Bates Alden
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"The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation." »Franois Auguste Ren Rodin
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"Fighting fire with fire only gets you ashes!" »Abigail van Buren
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"Fight fire with fire, and all you'll end up with is ashes." »Abigail Van Buren
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." »Louis D. Brandeis
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"If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles." »Doug Larson
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"Give a man a fire and keep him warm for a day. Light a man on fire and he will be warm for rest of his life." »Anonymous
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"To keep the fire burning brightly, there's one easy rule keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart -- about a finger's breadth -- for breathing room. Good fire, good marriage, same rule." »Marnie Reed Crowell
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"One essential to success is that your desire be an all-obsessing one, your thoughts and aims be co-ordinated, and your energy be concentrated and applied without letup." »Claude M. Bristol
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"How can you bring more light to the ephemeras who are plunged into the fire, because they have already had the light of the fire then.
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"During [these] periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight." »Fritjof Capra, physicist
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"During these periods of relaxation after concentrated intellectual activity, the intuitive mind seems to take over and can produce the sudden clarifying insights which give so much joy and delight." »Fritjof Capra
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"On this subject I do not which to think, or speak, or write, with moderation. No No Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest I will not equivocate I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard." »Lloyd Garrison
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"I had learnt to seek intensity…more of life, a concentrated sense of life." »Nina Berberova, O Magazine, September 2003
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"I had learnt to seek intensitymore of life, a concentrated sense of life." »Nina Berberova
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"Liberty is to faction, what air is to fire, an ailment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be a less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency." »James Madison, Federalist 10
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"Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerance and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-ideaed individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas." »Corinne Roosevelt Robinson
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"The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within." »Mahatma Gandhi
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"What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life." »Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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"What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life." »Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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"Indians are plenty smart. We catch small wood. Build small fire. Stand close and stay warm all over. White men not so smart. They catch big wood. Build big fire. Stand far away, burn face and freeze ass." »Henry Seely
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"Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight They never mention that part to us, do they" »George Carlin
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"Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?" »George Carlin
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"Out of the frying pan into the fire." »Quintus Septimius Tertullianus
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