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• I remember, particularly, a trip to Bosnia where the welcoming ceremony had to be moved inside because of sniper fire.

  Hillary Clinton

  Bosnia, Snipers, Welcome

  "Can Clinton Catch Obama?; Fit Nation; Ricin Found in a Las Vegas Motel Room, Man Hospitalized". "CNN Newsroom", edition.cnn.com. February 29, 2008.

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• Yes, in baseball when the team stinks, you fire the manager. But you don't fire him because it rains. And you don't let the opposing team choose a new manager for you. And you don't fire him between innings. And replace him with a Viennese weightlifter.

  Bill Maher

  Baseball, Team, Rain

  "We can all stop laughing on Wednesday, but for now, here's a sampling of recall election humor, part deux, from the nation's wags" by James Sullivan, www.sfgate.com. October 02, 2003.

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• We give ourselves to prayer. We preach a Gospel that saves to the uttermost, and witness to its power. We do not argue about worldliness; we witness. We do not discuss philosophy; we preach the Gospel. We do not speculate about the destiny of sinners; we pluck them as brands from the burning. We ask no man's patronage. We beg no man's money. We fear no man's frownLet no man join us who is afraid, and we want none but those who are saved, sanctified and aflame with the fire of the Holy Ghost.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Prayer, Philosophy, Destiny

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• Blessed are the pure in heart; how will people believe that, unless we ourselves are worshipping the living God until our own hearts are set on fire and scorched through with his purity?

  N. T. Wright

  Believe, Blessed, Heart

  N. T. Wright (2014). “For All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church”, p.104, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• There are five kinds of incendiary attack: The first is called setting fire to personnel; the second, to stores; the third, to transport vehicles and equipment; the fourth, to munitions; the fifth, to supply installations...In all cases an army must understand the changes induced by the five kinds of incendiary attack, and make use of logistical calculations to address them.

  Sun Tzu

  Army, Use, Addresses

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• We will be whatever they need us to be. Call us emo's, liars, and cheaters...tell people how awful we are and how little talent we have...do whatever it takes to make themselves feel better because at the end of the day, we are strong, we can take it. We don't need their approval to justify our lives. Each and every one of us has a fire that burns inside us and they can try like hell to put out that flame but as long as in our minds we know who we are meant to be, they don't stand a chance.

  Andy Biersack

  Strong, Emo, Liars

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• The tears that fall from the eyes of a truthful Believer, out of the fear of the Lord, and, then, roll down his face, however little they are, even of the size of a fly [i.e. just one drop], shall prevent the Fire of Hell from touching his face.

  Ibn Majah

  Fall, Eye, Touching

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• Its interesting, the things you learn when youre 21. I learned never to get tattoos in the middle of shooting a movie. Because if youre not Angelina Jolie or Megan Fox, they will fire you.

  Katee Sackhoff

  Tattoo, Interesting, Shooting

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• Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces - to what is possible. It needs no specific material. It pursues its own aims as circumstances allow; it turns obstacles into fuel. As a fire overwhelms what would have quenched a lamp. What's thrown on top of the conflagration is absorbed, consumed by it - and makes it burn still higher.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Events, Needs, Inward

  Marcus Aurelius (2002). “Meditations: A New Translation”, p.37, Modern Library

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• First Moloch, horrid king, besmirched in blood, Of Human sacrifice, and parent's tears, Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their childrens' cries unheard, that passed through fire, To his grim idol.

  John Milton

  Kings, Sacrifice, Blood

  John Milton, “Paradise Lost: Book 01”

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• An editor named Kerrie Hughes wanted me to write a short story that brought my fire-spider Smudge from my goblin books into the present-day world. I came up with libriomancy as a way to make that happen.

  Jim C. Hines

  Book, Writing, Editors

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• A loafer never works except when there is a fire; then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.

  E. W. Howe

  Motivation, Furniture, Loafers

  "Ventures in Common Sense". Book by Edgar Watson Howe, p. 171, 1919.

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• Fire, if neglected, will soon gain strength.

  Horace

  Gains, Neglected, Ifs

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• In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.

  Horace

  Fields, Ferns, Neglected

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• If God but cares for our inward and eternal life, if by all the experiences of this life He is reducing it and preparing for its disclosure, nothing can befall us but prosperity. Every sorrow shall be but the setting of some luminous jewel of joy. Our very morning shall be but the enamel around the diamond; our very hardships but the metallic rim that holds the opal, glancing with strange interior fires.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Morning, Jewels, Joy

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• Fire is next akin to smoke.

  Plautus

  Next, Smoke

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• The fire of true enthusiasm is like the fires of Baku, which no water can ever quench, and which burn steadily on from night to day, and year to year, because their well-spring is eternal.

  Ouida

  Spring, Night, Years

  Ouida (1870). “Held in Bondage: Or, Granville de Vigne a Tale of the Day”, p.197

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• Opposition to a man in love is like oil to fire.

  Ouida

  Love, Men, Oil

  Ouida (1870). “Held in Bondage: Or, Granville de Vigne a Tale of the Day”, p.69

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• True wisdom, indeed, springs from the wide brain which is fed from the deep heart; and it is only when age warms its withering conceptions at the memory of its youthful fire, when it makes experience serve aspiration, and knowledge illumine the difficult paths through which thoughts thread their way into facts,--it is only then that age becomes broadly and nobly wise.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Wise, Memories, Spring

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.2

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• Heroism is no extempore work of transient impulse--a rocket rushing fretfully up to disturb the darkness by which, after a moment's insulting radiance, it is ruthlessly swallowed up,--but a steady fire, which darts forth tongues of flame. It is no sparkling epigram of action, but a luminous epic of character.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Character, Epic, Rushing

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• Some critics are like chimney-sweepers; they put out the fire below, and frighten the swallows from their nests above; they scrape a long time in the chimney, cover themselves with soot, and bring nothing away but a bag of cinders, and then sing from the top of the house as if they had built it.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Long, House, Bags

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.454

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• The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.

  William Hazlitt

  Anger, Spirit, Disposition

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• There ought to be such an atmosphere in every Christian church that a man going there and sitting two hours should take the contagion of heaven, and carry home a fire to kindle the altar whence he came.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Christian, Home, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.18

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• It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top; but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People, Endurance, Energy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2399, Delphi Classics

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• Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into comparisons and metaphor. Sprightly natures, full of fire, and whom a boundless imagination carries beyond all rules, and even what is reasonable, cannot rest satisfied even with hyperbole. As for the sublime, it is only great geniuses and those of the very highest order that are able to rise to its height.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Fall, Men, Order

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