"I'm like a fireman. When I go out on a call, I want to put out a big fire, I don't want to put out a fire in a dumpster."
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"The world is on fire! And you are laughing? You are deep in the dark. Will you not ask for a light?"
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"A wrong action may not bring its reaction at once, even as fresh milk turns not sour at once: like a smouldering fire concealed under ashes it consumes the wrongdoer, the fool."
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"If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire."
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"The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it."
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"The things... which are proper to the understanding no other man is used to impede, for neither fire, nor iron, nor tyrant, nor abuse, touches it in any way. When it has been made a sphere, it continues a sphere."
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"As the same fire assumes different shapes When it consumes objects differing in shape, So does the one Self take the shape Of every creature in whom he is present."
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"Friendship, on the other hand, serves a great host of different purposes all at the same time. In whatever direction you turn, it still remains yours. No barrier can shut it out. It can never be untimely; it can never be in the way. We need friendship all the time, just as much as we need the proverbial prime necessities of life, fire and water."
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"Fire and water are not of more universal use than friendship."
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"Billy, in one of his nice new sashes, Fell in the fire and was burnt to ashes; Now, although the room grows chilly, I haven't the heart to poke poor Billy."
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"Whatever inspires you fires you."
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"Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."
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"Those who play with fire should expect to be consumed by it."
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"Willow [Smith] started making music first. I was like, "My younger sister is, like, 4, and she's making all these fire songs. What's happening?" Willow was doing all these things, about to have record label deals at like the age of 6, and I was like, "I feel like I'm underachieving.""
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"When the fire goes out, you'll start feeling the cold. You'll wake up whether you want to or not."
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"we are to be brought through the fire, not left in it. and you know what? to anyone that ever told you that you're no good... they're no better."
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"Love, like fire, cannot subsist without constant impulse; it ceases to live from the moment it ceases to hope or to fear."
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"Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear."
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""If you look at the river in that fashion you will be likely to bathe in it soon," cried Rozier. "Some fire, my dear friend, some fire!""
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"How thin is the crust of order over the fires of human appetite and the lust for naked power."
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