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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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• 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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• It's a fire, it's a passion to get out and to create and to innovate. And that I've always enjoyed and I've always been very proud of is that the people I've done business with, the people around me have always made money.

  Kevin Plank

  Passion, People, Done

  "A $10 Business". "I Am American Business" Interview, www.cnbc.com. June 24, 2012.

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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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• No one else can steward the fire inside of you because only you are in charge of it.

  Danny Silk

  Stewards, Fire Inside

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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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• In dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling any faggot rather than let the fire go out.

  James M. Barrie

  Dinner, Fling

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Tommy And Grizel (Annotated Edition)”, p.32, Jazzybee Verlag

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• As shines the moon amid the lesser fires.

  Horace

  Moon, Shining

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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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• The great sins and fires break out of me like the terrible leaves from the bough in the violent spring. I am a walking fire, I am all leaves.

  Edith Sitwell

  Spring, Passion, Break Out

  Dame Edith Sitwell (1952). “Selected Poems”

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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 of 'em [virtues] like extinct volcanoes,
  with a strong memory or fire and brimstone.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Strong, Memories, Volcanoes

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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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• Love is friendship that has caught fire. ... Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future, and it doesn't brood over the past. It's the day-in and day-out chronicle of irritations, problems, compromises, small disappointments, big victories and working toward common goals. If you have love in your life it can make up for a great many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.

  Ann Landers

  Disappointment, Past, Love Is

  Ann Landers (1996). “Wake Up and Smell the Coffee!: Advice, Wisdom, and Uncommon Good Sense”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• [On her political writings:] It is, I confess, very possible that these my Labours may only be destined to line Trunks, or preserve roast Meat from too fierce a Fire; yet in that Shape I shall be useful to my Country.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Country, Writing, Political

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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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• A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.

  Honore de Balzac

  Children, Women, Thinking

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• The same wind that extinguishes a light can set a brazier on fire.

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  Light, Wind

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• We better know there is a fire whence we see much smoke rising than we could know it by one or two witnesses swearing to it. The witnesses may commit perjury, but the smoke cannot.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Two, Rising, May

  Abraham Lincoln (1894). “Abraham Lincoln: Complete Works, Comprising His Speeches, Letters, State Papers, and Miscellaneous Writings”

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• You are yoked with a lamb,
  That carries anger as the flint bears fire;
  Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spank,
  And straight is cold again.

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Lambs, Bears

  William Shakespeare (1865). “Tragedies”

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