"Playing with fire doesn't necessarily get you burned."
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"For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught."
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"Stay in the spiritual fire. Let it cook you."
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"The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its smoke becomes visible in the end."
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"There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed."
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"There is no fire like passion: there is no evil and hatred."
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"Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again."
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"Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow."
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"I will take what is mine with fire and blood."
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"Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire."
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"We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing."
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"The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire."
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"I’m sick and tired of life with no desire. I don’t want a flame, I want a fire."
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"So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like scorpion girt by fire; So writhes the mind remorse hath riven, Unfit for earth, undoom'd for heaven, Darkness above, despair beneath, Around it flame, within it death."
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"Look for God. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water."
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"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire"
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"We have a war on women, race wars. Income wars, age wars, religious wars, anything you can imagine. A house divided against itself cannot stand it. And it's going to be up to us, to people, to begin the focus on the positive things, on the things that we have in common and stop listening to those who are stoking the fires of division."
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"The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire which is the quality without a name."
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"I know what you're thinking 'Did he fire six shots or only five?"
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"Wars aren't stopped by fighting wars, any more than you can fight fire with fire. You fight fire with water. You fight violence with nonviolence."
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