"I wouldn't piss on Joan Crawford if she were on fire."
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"You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for."
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""she’ mad but she’ magic. there’ no lie in her fire."
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"We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within."
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"Have fire and spread all over. Work, work. Be the servant while leading, be unselfish, and never listen to one friend in private accusing another. Have infinite patience, and success is yours."
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"What fire does not destroy, it hardens"
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"There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I."
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"Moving in space, the atoms originally were individual units, but inevitable they began to collide with each other, and in cases where their shapes were such as to permit them to interlock, they began to form clusters. Water, air, fire, and earth, these are simply different clusters of the changeless atoms."
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"If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, just hand out to anyone."
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"Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them."
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"I am a fanatic! I feel a power within me...a fire that I may not quench, but must keep ablaze."
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"The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel. I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal."
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"The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic."
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"Take now this Ring,' he said; 'for thy labours and thy cares will be heavy, but in all it will support thee and defend thee from weariness. For this is the Ring of Fire, and herewith, maybe, thou shalt rekindle hearts to the valour of old in a world that grows chill."
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"I thought my fire was out, and stirred the ashes…. I burnt my fingers."
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"You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world."
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"Confidentially, the type of male I find most enjoyable for a friend is one who has enough fire and assurance to speak up for his convictions."
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"Cool the flames of your anger by performing the wudhu for only water can extinguish fire."
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"To the dear eye and eloquent tongue, to the soul made of fire, and the character that bends but does not break... I am ever tender and true."
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"The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire."
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