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James Joyce Novelist, Poet
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"In this life our sorrows are either not very long or not very great because nature either overcomes them by habits or puts an end to them by sinking under their weight. But in hell the torments cannot be overcome by habit, for while they are of terrible intensity they are at the same time of continual variety, each pain, so to speak, taking fire from another and re-endowing that which has enkindled it with a still fiercer flame."

Pain Fire Flames
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Mark Cuban Entrepreneur, Investor
Fire

"When I got to the Mavericks people were all giving me advice - change this, change that - and one thing that I didn't do was fire anybody."

People Giving Fire
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"Kind messages, that pass from land to land; Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history, In which we feel the pressure of a hand,-- One touch of fire,--and all the rest is mystery!"

Heart Hands Fire
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Khaled Mashal Political Leader
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"So long as there is an Israeli occupation in Palestine and so long as U.S. policy is biased, the so-called terrorism that the United States fears will escalate because the mistakes of U.S. foreign policy are pouring oil on fire."

Mistake Fire Oil
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Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher, Writer
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"So that is what hell is. I would never have believed it. You remember: the fire and brimstone, the torture. Ah! the farce. There is no need for torture: Hell is other people."

People Fire Farce
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Johnny Cash Musician, Singer-songwriter
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"The fire and excitement may be gone now that we don't go out there and sing them anymore, but the ring of fire still burns around you and I, keeping our love hotter than a pepper sprout."

May Fire Our Love
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Joseph Heller Novelist
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"Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window, and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all."

Men Fall Fire
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Fire

"Wisdom can see the red, the rose, the stained and sculptured curve of grey, the charcoal scars of fire, and see around that living tower of tree the hermit tatters of old bark split down and strip to end the season; and can be quiet and not look for reasons past the edge of reason."

Past Wisdom Fire
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Fire

"Every year everything I have ever learned in my lifetime leads back to this: the fires and the black river of loss whose other side is salvation"

Years Fire Loss
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Lord Byron Poet, Novelist
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"Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim."

Years Life Fire
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"A dragon has just flown over the tree-tops and lighted on the beach. Yes, I am afraid it is between us and the ship. And arrows are no use against dragons. And they're not at all afraid of fire." "With your Majesty's leave-" began Reepicheep. "No, Reepicheep," said the King very firmly, "you are not to attempt a single combat with it."

Fire Kings Beach
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Patricia King Author
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"A move of the Spirit of God is coming to the Catholic Church. The youth in particular will be ignited with a fresh fire of zeal and passion for Christ and His Gospel. A radical company of Believers will arise in the Catholic Church during this move, and they will release a flow of God's love and truth into the nations."

Moving Passion Fire
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Paulo Coelho Writer
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"The alchemists spent years in their laboratories, observing the fire that purified the metals. They spent so much time close to the fire that gradually they gave up the vanities of the world. They discovered that the purification of the metals had led to a purification of themselves."

Years Fire Vanity
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Pema Chodron Buddhist Teacher, Author
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"It's said that when we die, the four elements - earth, air, fire and water - dissolve one by one, each into the other, and finally just dissolve into space. But while we're living, we share the energy that makes everything, from a blade of grass to an elephant, grow and live and then inevitably wear out and die. This energy, this life force, creates the whole world."

Life Fire Air
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Pharrell Williams Musician, Producer
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"The Internet is just it's great in a lot of ways and it has its disadvantages. But one of the great advantages is the ubiquity - virtually anyone can be discovered and things catch like fire when they're great."

Way Fire Ubiquity
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Dan Brown Author
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"The information was kept hidden for the same reason we keep matches from children. In the correct hands, fire can provide illumination... but in the wrong hands, fire can be highly destructive."

Children Fire Illumination
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Emile Zola Novelist
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"Every wave is a water sprite who swims in the current, each current is a path which snakes towards my palace, and my palace is fluidly built at the bottom of the lake, in the triangle of earth, fire and water."

Fire Lakes Snakes
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