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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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"I will follow the right side even to the fire, but excluding the fire if I can." »Michel de Montaigne
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"If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere" »Marilyn Monroe
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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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"It is not observed in history that families improve with time." »George William Curtis
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"Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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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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"Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author" »Philip G. Hamerton
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"Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?" »Philip G. Hamerton, "The Intellectual Life"
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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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"Men who have not observed discipline, and have not gained treasure in their youth, perish like old herons in a lake without fish." »The Dhammapada
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"I have observed that as long as a man lives and exerts himself he can always find food and raiment, though, it may be, not of the choicest description." »Goethe
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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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"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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"Jenny replied to this with a bitterness which might have surprized a judicious person, who had observed the tranquillity with which she bore all the affronts to her chastity; but her patience was perhaps tired out, for this is a virtue which is very apt to be fatigued by exercise." »Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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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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"Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything." »Francis Bacon
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"Dogs are happy with few things because they have already observed man who is unhappy with many things!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed." »Abraham Lincoln
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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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"It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity." »Alexander Hamilton, Speech on 21 June 1788 urging ratification of the Constitution in New York.
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"It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny their figure deformity." »Alexander Hamilton
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"The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work." »John Von Neumann
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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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"It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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