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John Muir Naturalist, Writer
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"None may wholly escape the good of Nature, however imperfectly exposed to her blessings. The minister will not preach a perfectly flat and sedimentary sermon after climbing a snowy peak; and the fair play and tremendous impartiality of Nature, so tellingly displayed, will surely affect the after pleadings of the lawyer. Fresh air at least will get into everybody, and the cares of mere business will be quenched like the fires of a sinking ship."

Fire Blessing Climbing
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John Muir Naturalist, Writer
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"Indians walk softly and hurt the landscape hardly more than the birds and squirrels, and their brush and bark huts last hardly longer than those of wood rats, while their more enduring monuments, excepting those wrought on the forests by the fires they made to improve their hunting grounds, vanish in a few centuries."

Hurt Fire Hunting
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Jerry Lee Lewis Musician
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"I never set fire to a piano. I'd like to have got away with it, though. I pushed a couple of them in the river. They wasn't any good."

Fire Couple Rivers
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"For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry."

Fire Pockets Rope
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Huston Smith Philosopher
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"The Sufis say there are three ways to know fire - by hearing it described, by seeing it, or by being burned."

Way Fire Three
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Hermann Hesse Novelist, Poet
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"Those who direct the maximum force of their desires toward the center, toward true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the passionate souls because the flame of their fervor cannot always be seen."

Fire Perfection Flames
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"The game is to have them all running about with fire extinguishers when there is a flood, and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gunwale under."

Running Games Fire
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B.K.S. Iyengar Yoga Teacher
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"Why should you practice Yoga? To kindle the divine fire within yourself. Everyone has a dormant spark of divinity in him which has to be fanned into flame."

Fire Yoga Flames
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Paulo Coelho Writer
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"Thousands of years ago, weren't we capable of building enormous structures like the pyramids? Weren't we capable of worshiping gods, weaving, making fire, finding lovers and wives, sending written messages? Of course we were. But although we've succeeded in replacing slaves with wage slaves, all the advances we've made have been in the field of science. Human beings are still asking the same questions as their ancestors. In short, they haven't evolved at all."

Years Fire Pyramids
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Plutarch Philosopher, Historian
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"... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no care of his person; that he was often carried by force to the baths, and when there he would trace geometrical figures in the ashes of the fire, and with his finger draws lines upon his body when it was anointed with oil, being in a state of great ecstasy and divinely possessed by his science."

Fire Math Oil
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Emile M. Cioran Philosopher, Essayist
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"True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes."

Fire Tears Ashes
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Emma Thompson Actress, Screenwriter, Author
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"Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise."

Soul Love Is Fire
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"While there are many varieties of grills, each with their own virtues to be sure, I prefer the standard Weber kettle grill. Don't be fooled into thinking that you need any fancy gadgets in order to take advantage of cooking over a live fire. Just a good set of tongs and you're set."

Thinking Order Fire
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