"Gettin' near the fire, chica, doesn't necessarily mmean you'll get burned."
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"Evolution can't be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it's a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn't aim."
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"The stubbornest of wills Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron, O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness,Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through."
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"He burned his house down for the fire insurance and spent the proceeds on a telescope."
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"When I was young my teachers were the old. I gave up fire for form till I was cold."
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"Outer fire we need to cook. Inner fire we need to liberate. God's Fire we need to love."
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"Fervor is a fire that makes things boil and grow hot, just as fire causes water to boil. It is, properly speaking, charity on fire, and that is what you should have because a Daughter without Charity is like a body without a soul."
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"i can't understand her" well son, you might as well try to understand the sun". derived form the book:fires of heaven by robert jordan."
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"On a day of fire and blood, a tattered banner waved above Dumai's wells, bearing the ancient symbol of Aes Sedai. On a day of fire and blood and the one power, as prophecy had suggested, the unstained tower, broken, bent knee to the forgotten sign. The first nine Aes Sedai swore fealty to the Dragon Reborn, and the world was changed forever."
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"To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire."
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"Your hair is winter fire January embers My heart burns there, too."
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"Silent white light filled the world. And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire."
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"I started a grease fire at McDonald's - threw a match in the cook's hair."
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"The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless."
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"A conflagration always made such a nice backdrop to a battle. Fire made everything so much more joyously apocalyptic."
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"When PLO sniper fire is followed by 14 hours of Israeli bombardment, that's stretching the definition of defensive action too far."
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"Love is friendship on fire -- anonymous"
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"A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs-especially those of people, of distant landscapes and faraway cities, of the vanished past-are incitements to reverie. The sense of the unattainable that can be evoked by photographs feeds directly into the erotic feelings of those for whom desirability is enhanced by distance."
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"With eternal faith in Him, set fire to the mountain of misery that has been heaped upon India for ages - and it shall be burned down."
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"We are the planet, fully as much as water, earth, fire and air are the planet, and if the planet survives, it will only be through heroism. Not occasional heroism, a remarkable instance of it here and there, but constant heroism, systematic heroism, heroism as governing principle."
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