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"The lightning-bug is brilliant, but he hasn't any mind He stumbles through existence with his head-light on behind. - from The Lightning-Bug" »Eugene F. Ware
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"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug." »Mark Twain
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"The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The trouble isn't that there are too many fools, but that the lightning isn't distributed right." »Mark Twain
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"I hope they never find out that lightning has a lot of vitamins in it, because do you hide from it or not" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"The affections are like lightning; You cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen" »Jean Baptiste Lacoraire
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"One golfer a year is hit by lightning. This may be the only evidence we have of God's existence." »Steve Aylett, Atom (a novel, 2000)
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"Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone." »Hodding Carter
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"It ain't the heat, it's the humility." »Lawrence Peter Berra
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"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen." »Harry S Truman
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"Do not expose your LaserWriter to fire or intense heat." »Apple LaserWriter manual
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"heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal." »Alighieri Dante
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"Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers." »William Penn
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"A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time." »Willie Tyler
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"Where it is duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat." »John Morley
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"Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat." »John Viscount Morley
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"Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed." »Herodotus
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"Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger." »John Bay
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"One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing is to supply light and not heat" »Woodrow Wilson
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"One cool judgment is worth a dozen hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat." »Woodrow Wilson
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"Wit is brushwood; judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, and the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire." »Overlung
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"Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds." »Herodotus
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"Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth." »Denis Diderot
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"'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies runs with one, walks gravely with another turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame it wounds one, another it kills like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning for there is no force able to resist it." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"Hell must be isothermal; for otherwise the resident engineers and physical chemists (of which there must be some) could set up a heat engine to run a refrigerator to cool off a portion of their surroundings to any desired temperature." »Henry Albert Ben, _The Second Law_
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"heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart." »Walter Savage Landor
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"And then, the unspeakable purity and freshness of the air! There was just enough heat to enhance the value of the breeze, and just enough wind to keep the whole sea in motion, to make the waves come bounding to the shore, foaming and sparkling, as if wild with glee." »Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey
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"Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day." »John Donne
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"Don Corleone I'm a superstitious man, and if some unlucky accident should befall Michael - if he is to be shot in the head by a police officer, or be found hung dead in a jail cell... or if he should be struck by a bolt of lightning - then I'm going to blame some of the people in this room and then I do not forgive. But with said, I pledge - on the souls of my grandchildren - that I will not be the one to break the peace that we have made today." »Godfather, The
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