"In each fire there is a spirit; Each one is wrapped in what is burning him."
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"I love it when people yell at me about the environment and then I tell 'em I'm burning 90% cleaner than them."
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"Our hearts are lamps for ever burning."
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"The burning gaze of a young woman, such as hath tasted man, shall not escape me; for I have a spirit keen to mark these things."
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"Of course building a kitchen makes all the symmetric sense in the world because everybody's burning calories at 120 beats a minute. You could even register it on a graph at the DJ booth. "How fast are they burning calories, sir?" "126 a minute." "Are you sure?" "Oh, I'm very sure." You can meter that out."
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"Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning."
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"Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand."
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"I am burning. If anyone lacks tinder, let him set his rubbish ablaze with my fire."
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"I loved her, atom by atom, one burning cell at a time."
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"I hope before long to press you in my arms and shall shower on you a million burning kisses as under the Equator."
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"...and trauma had a way of burning memories deeper into the mind."
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"I can smell burning flesh... and I hope to God it's human."
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"As it stands right now, I lead Richard Pryor in heart attacks, two to one. However, Richard still leads me, one to nothing, in burning yourself up."
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"At the root of all power and motion, at the burning center of existence itself, there is music and rhythm."
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"I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "Death," I said, "any death but that of the pit!" Fool! might I have not known that into the pit it was the object of the burning iron to urge me?"
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"Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies."
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"I find vacuuming very therapeutic, but I hate ironing. I usually have no shirt on while ironing, because I'm ironing it, and I end up burning my chest."
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"There's one tiny little gap in the universe left, just about to close. And it takes a lot of power to send this projection. I'm in orbit around a supernova. I'm burning up a sun just to say good bye."
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"People equated burning CDs with theft. That's not what burning CDs is. Theft is about acquiring the music from the Internet."
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"Muscle and water is critical in burning fat."
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