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• Great leaders communicate a vision that captures the imagination and fires the hearts and minds of those around them.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Heart, Imagination, Leader

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• But it's never just been the journals that have made the difference, I don't think. It's also the way the students are with one another . . . the way they talk about books and authors and themselves. Not just their problems, but their passions too. The way they form a little society and discuss whatever matters to them. Books light the fire-whether it's a book that's already written, or an empty journal that needs to be filled in.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Book, Passion, Thinking

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• Books light the fire-whether it's a book that's already written, or an empty journal that needs to be filled in.

  Meg Wolitzer

  Book, Filled In, Light

  Meg Wolitzer (2014). “Belzhar”, p.141, Penguin

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• A tale from which pieces have been raked out is like a fire that has been poked. One does not know the operation has been performed, but everyone feels the effect.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Doe, Pieces, Operations

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• Yela represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. Wolf speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.

  Yelawolf

  Fighting, Light, Soul

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• I am a hot-blooded fire and I am fearless.

  Amy Schumer

  Fearless, Hot

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• A photograph is both a pseudo-presence and a token of absence. Like a wood fire in a room, photographs-especially those of people, of distant landscapes and faraway cities, of the vanished past-are incitements to reverie. The sense of the unattainable that can be evoked by photographs feeds directly into the erotic
  feelings of those for whom desirability is enhanced by distance.

  Susan Sontag

  Distance, Past, Cities

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.17, Macmillan

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• Your eyes are as a flame, but our brothers have neither hope nor fire. Your mouth is cut of granite, but our brothers are soft and humble. Your head is high, but our brothers cringe. You walk, but our brothers crawl. We wish to be damned with you, rather than blessed with all our brothers. Do as you please with us, but do not send us away from you.

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, Blessed, Humble

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Anthem”, p.40, Xist Publishing

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• Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination, with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.

  Noah Porter

  Leadership, Determination, Moving

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• The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.

  Rachel Zoe

  Eye, People, Sound

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• At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more, half-successful, effort of creation, and produce the Classicism that is common to all dying Cultures. The soul thinks once again, and in Romanticism looks back piteously to its childhood; then finally, weary, reluctant, cold, it loses its desire to be, and, as in Imperial Rome, wishes itself out of the overlong daylight and back in the darkness of protomysticism in the womb of the mother in the grave.

  Oswald Spengler

  Mother, Successful, Thinking

  Oswald Spengler (1991). “The Decline of the West”, p.75, Oxford University Press, USA

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• You want to ensure people can do it right 99 percent of time. When we have to fire one of our surgical trainees, it is never because they dont have the physical skills but because they dont have the moral skills - to practise and admit failure.

  Atul Gawande

  Skills, People, Want

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• We always worry that we are copying someone else, that we don't have our own style. Don't worry. Writing is a communal act. Contrary to popular belief, a writer is not Prometheus alone on a hill full of fire. We are very arrogant to think we alone have a totally original mind. We are carried on the backs of all the writers who came before us. We live in the present with all the history, ideas, and soda pop of this time. It all gets mixed up in our writing.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Writing, Thinking, Soda Pop

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.102, Shambhala Publications

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• Could it be that first love was the only true love? And that after those first fires had been doused or burned out, men and women chose whom they would love based on worldly needs, and then reenacted the rituals and feelings of that first pure experience - nursed the flames that once burned of their own accord

  Simon Van Booy

  First Love, Men, Flames

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.132, Oneworld Publications

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• Be careful how quickly you give away your fire.

  Robert Bly

  Giving, Be Careful, Careful

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• In dealing with Syria's dictator...only force counts. No cease-fire was attainable in Lebanon until the 16-inch guns of the battleship New Jersey started shelling Syria's proxies; suddenly, sweet reason prevailed in Damascus.

  William Safire

  Sweet, Peace, War

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• We can export terrorism. We can assassinate and set fires inside the territory of the United States as it did to all of us.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Peace, War, United States

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• When PLO sniper fire is followed by 14 hours of Israeli bombardment, that's stretching the definition of defensive action too far.

  Ronald Reagan

  Peace, War, Definitions

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• I can never feel that setting fire to houses and churches and litter boxes and destroying valuable pictures really helps to convince people that women ought to be enfranchised.

  Millicent Fawcett

  Sex, People, House

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• I'm kind of the boss. I could fire myself if I ever got out of line, and I can hire myself too which is a good thing. It gives me a responsibility to the financial realities.

  Tony Krantz

  Responsibility, Reality, Giving

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• Every now and then I love to invest in a company that may not set the world on fire, but has the chance to establish itself, create jobs and have a positive impact.

  Mark Cuban

  Jobs, Impact, World

  Interview with Maria Bartiromo, www.usatoday.com. November 16, 2013.

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• Sometimes, people mistake fire in the belly for too much pepperoni pizza the night before. They make a great speech and people come up to them and tell them, "You could be president." And the next thing you know, they're running, not because they really ought to or have any shot at doing it, but because they have, you know, a handful of people that tell them they are looking at the next president.

  Mike Huckabee

  Running, Mistake, Night

  "Mike Huckabee Explains 2012 Decision; Rep. Ron Paul on His Presidential Bid; Sens. Durbin, Kyl Talk Immigration Reform, Debt Ceiling". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. May 15, 2011.

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• Fear is like the steam that fires the combustion engine. You need fear to get a performance going.

  Rachel Weisz

  Needs, Steam, Performances

  "The Actress Roundtable". Interview with Matthew Belloni, Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 17, 2012.

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• Over my career I played some badass characters. So, people sometimes think I should have a .44 magnum. But that's not true, I don't have that. But I do fire them and I do enjoy target shooting and all that sort of thing. I'm not much of a hunter. I don't like killing animals, but I love to shoot.

  Clint Eastwood

  Badass, Character, Thinking

  "'American Sniper' director Clint Eastwood says the movie is anti-war". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.businessinsider.com. Interview with Stephen Galloway.

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• I like comic conventions. I genuinely like comic conventions. I like wandering around from table to table; I like wandering up and down Artist's Alley and saying "Hello" to people. I like hanging out on the DC booth. I can't do that anymore. I'd like to, but I can't. I physically can't. If I stop moving, somebody will come up to me with something to sign, and if I sign it, somehow it's like ants sensing sugar. There will be fifty or a hundred people around me and then fire marshals will come and then I'm trapped in a crowd. It's bizarre.

  Neil Gaiman

  Moving, Artist, People

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