"To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as long as you live."
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"I don't have any particular burning desire to go back to being cuddly. Not really."
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"when the fierce, burning winds blow over our lives-and we cannot prevent them-let us, too, accept the inevitable. And then get busy and pick up the pieces."
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"If you aren't feeding the fire of anger or the fire of craving by talking to yourself, then the fire doesn't have anything to feed on."
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"Dust to the dust! but the pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal."
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"Burning every bridge that I cross to find some beautiful place to get lost."
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"The part of uranium that's fissile - when you hit it with a neutron, it splits in two - is about 0.7%. The reactors we have today are burning that 0.7%."
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"When you follow Christ, it must be a total burning of all your bridges behind you."
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"To be wealthy you must develop a burning desire for wealth and financial independence."
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"Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given."
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"How well I know with what burning intensity you live. You have experienced many lives already, including several you have shared with me- full rich lives from birth to death, and you just have to have these rest periods in between."
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"What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning."
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"God is not usually a burning bush in my life. He's usually a very quiet whisper. And he never shows up too early...but he's also never late, either."
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"Cash never makes us happy, but it's better to have the money burning a hole in Berkshire's pocket than resting comfortably in someone else's."
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"Many casting directors won't hire aspiring actors because you might be burning some chick's headshot under the table so she doesn't get the part."
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"Do I really want to be integrated into a burning house?"
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"It takes oil to keep the lamps burning."
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"I was told that it was cool to fall in love, and that period was nothing like that to me. I gave too much of my time and energy to another person and they did the same to me and we started burning out against each other. And that is what is termed love."
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"If it isn't a passion, it isn't burning, it isn't on fire, you haven't lived."
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"I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way."
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