"I would have been dead if it weren't for that great gift to civilization from the Chemistry Department of Harvard, which was napalm, or sticky jellied gasoline."
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"Affection can no more spoil a child than the sun could be put out by a bucket of gasoline."
"If it's about the lives of my soldiers at stake, I'd go through hell with a gasoline can."
"When you diversify your mutual funds, you are diversifying something that is already diversified. Diversifying mutual funds is like taking high octane gasoline & adding water & then adding orange juice to it."
"After hooking up the fuel line and pumping a little gasoline through the hose, I prepared for a workout on the 'coach's ergometer'."
"ANYTHING will burn with enough gasoline and dynamite."