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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 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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"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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"heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal." »Alighieri Dante
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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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"Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers." »William Penn
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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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"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 dozen hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat." »Woodrow Wilson
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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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"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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"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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"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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"'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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"All sanity depends on this that is should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh." »Doris Lessing
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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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"You think Nature is some Disney movie Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out there 24 hours a day, every step that you take is a gamble with death. If it isn't getting hit with lightning today, it's an earthquake tomorrow or some deer tick carrying Lime disease. Either way, you're ending up on the wrong end of the food chain." »Jeff Melvoin
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"Fame to be sweet must resound in the ears of those we love, in the atmosphere of the land that will guard our ashes. Fame should hover over our tomb to warm with its heat the chill of death, so that we may not be completely reduced to nothingness, that something of us may survive! (Noli Me Tangere)" »Dr. Jose P. Rizal
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"The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. . . .If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters." »Frederick Douglas
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"Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain" »William Shakespeare
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"The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, Just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat." »Napolean Hill
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