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Ayn Rand Philosopher, Novelist
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"Emotions are inherent in your nature, but their content is dictated by your mind. Your emotional capacity is an empty motor, and your values are the fuel with which your mind fills it."

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Walter Smith Artist
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"Overall, going to the moon is a daunting project because of the amount of fuel it takes to send a payload from Earth."

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Irving Stone Author
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"It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?" "Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out."

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Francis Bacon Philosopher, Statesman
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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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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are unable to devise for them."

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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us ... like a fire kindled within our being to which everything else in us is mere fuel."

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Mark Twain Writer, Humorist
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"Sagebrush is a very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child the mule."

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Joyce Johnson Author
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"I was always aware that Jack loved women not only for their bodies but for the stories that came into being as they interacted with him-they were part of his “road,” the infinite range of experience that always had to remain open to fuel his work."

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