"Ninety percent of true love is acute, ear-burning embarrassment."
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"He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out."
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"Burning fossil fuels is like breaking up the furniture to feed the fireplace because it's easier than going out to the woodpile."
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"When you go on an extreme diet, your body's self-preservation mechanism responds by burning calories as slowly as possible. Of course, that makes it much more difficult to lose weight."
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"The sweet of bitter bark And burning clove."
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"Bold words and bolder deeds are what we want. Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep?"
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"Anytime there's a fire in a negro community and it's burning out of control, you send any one of them, send Whitney Young in to put it out."
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"I have to do this, as long as it is at all possible; for if those who are obliged to look after commas had always made sure they were in the right place, then Shanghai would not be burning."
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"He was alone in the darkness once more, but the darkness became brighter and brighter until it was burning like the sun."
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"Don't let it bring you down. It's only castles burning, find someone who's turning, and you will come around."
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"that's what it was like waking up in the crypts. no-longer-dead. but without her. like burning alive."
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"Maybe the ones burning my jersey were never LeBron fans anyway."
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"I find the older one gets the harder it is to keep the weight off, even if one isn't eating very fattening foods. Once, I was able to put foods like those away, and they didn't show up on the bathroom scales the next morning. But that was when I was very physically active, travelling all over the world and burning up more calories."
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"burning with curiosity"
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"The foods that prolong life and increase purity, vigour, health, cheerfulness, and happiness are those that are delicious, soothing, substantial and agreeable... Foods that are bitter, sour, salt, over-hot, pungent, dry and burning produce unhappiness, repentance and disease."
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"Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us."
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"There are good photographers who might elevate themselves to the ranks of the great simply by burning most of their work."
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"I am burning myself up and will always do so."
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"Like a flame is real enough, isn't it, while it's burning?-even if there's a time it goes out?"
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"If there is anything for which I would go back to childhood, and live this weary life over again, it is for the burning, exalting, transporting thrill and ecstasy with which the young faculties hold their earliest communion with knowledge."
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