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• Who knows why some words ignite the hearts of some readers while others are like wet matches that won't light.

  Phil Cousineau

  Heart, Light, Reader

  Phil Cousineau (2008). “Stoking the Creative Fires: 9 Ways to Rekindle Passion and Imagination”, p.12, Conari Press

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• By bringing together what we know and what we don't know through analogy, metaphorical thinking strikes the spark that ignites discovery.

  James Geary

  Thinking, Discovery, Together

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• I always stood for the elimination of conflict and wars, and any of those causes that ignite them.

  Cat Stevens

  Peace, War, Understanding

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• Significant inventions are not mere accidents. The erroneous view [that they are] is widely held, and it is one that the scientific and technical community, unfortunately, has done little to dispel. Happenstance usually plays a part, to be sure, but there is much more to invention than the popular notion of a bolt out of the blue. Knowledge in depth and in breadth are virtual prerequisites. Unless the mind is thoroughly charge beforehand, the proverbial spark of genius, if it should manifest itself, probably will find nothing to ignite.

  Paul Flory

  Blue, Views, Play

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• You must take care to light the matches one at a time. If a powerful emotion should ignite them all at once, they would produce a splendor so dazzling that it would illuminate far beyond what we can normally see; and then a brilliant tunnel would appear before our eyes, revealing the path we forgot the moment we were born, and summoning us to regain the divine origins we had lost. The soul ever longs to return to the place from which it came, leaving the body lifeless.

  Laura Esquivel

  Powerful, Eye, Tunnels

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• I feel blessed. So many men and women search and search but never find their passion, their calling, their sense of mission that would ignite their hearts and fill their lives with meaning and joy.

  Robert Mondavi

  Blessed, Passion, Heart

  Robert Mondavi (1999). “Harvests of Joy: How the Good Life Became Great Business”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Before the first atomic bomb test, scientists took the time to calculate whether the blast would ignite the nitrogen in Earth's atmosphere and incinerate us all. The risk was low and the test went off, but Rees wonders what the odds would have had to be to discourage the bomb makers.

  Dennis Overbye

  Funny, Science, Technology

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• Imagination is a flame that ignites the creative spirit. Imagination lights up your mind by stoking mental fires. It can be stimulated from the outside through the senses, or from the inside through the driving power of curiosity and discontent.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Art, Fire, Light

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• What if all it took to bring us to our knees and to ignite our affections was the Word opened and the presence of God? What if that was enough for us? What if it didn't take a great band to evoke that kind of response from us in worship? What if His presence - His Word opened - what if it was enough?

  David Platt

  What If, Band, Knees

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• I will keep the ground that God has given me and perhaps in his grace, he will ignite me again. But ignite me or not, in his grace, in his power, I will hold the ground.

  John Knox

  Grace, Given

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• I would like to see whoever is our next president dedicate a significant part of their inaugural address to this challenge. We have to ignite the nation's energies and passions on this to make this happen. I think we do need the same kind of inspiration we had from Kennedy in his inaugural address in 1961.

  Jay Inslee

  Inspiration, Passion, Thinking

  "Power Q&A: Rep. Jay Inslee". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2008.

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• A great song awakens something in your body / mind / spirit or history that you had forgotten about. It ignites some emotional kindling that you didn't even know you had stored. It awakens you to a possibility for the future - be it hope or excitement - that you never knew was possible.

  Greta Salpeter

  Song, Emotional, Mind

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• Being the first mid-size SUV for the brand, Dodge Nitro had to personify the bold, powerful and street-smart attitude of Dodge. In a world of mostly bland SUVs, the 2007 Dodge Nitro has the design, engineering and performance to inspire consumers and ignite the mid-size SUV market.

  George Murphy

  Powerful, Attitude, Smart

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• I don't know why a beauty salon would have a cop's hat and the curling irons are not deadly unless they're still plugged in and they're hot. So I'm not quite sure about that. But I don't know who remembers anymore that you can ignite spray cans, plus there aren't really any spray cans anymore 'cause that was destroying the ozone layer. So I'm - actually, I'll have to go with they chased him with the curling irons.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Ozone, Iron, Hot

  "Not My Job: We Quiz Cosmos Expert Neil deGrasse Tyson On Cosmetology". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. October 24, 2015.

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• I think in theory, Donald Trump could be a formidable candidate, right? The theory of him is, if he ignites working class white voters, he can put Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, states like Ohio in play for the Republicans.

  Joy-Ann Reid

  Thinking, Ohio, Class

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• A man must go on a quest / to discover the sacred fire / in the sanctuary of his own belly / to ignite the flame in his heart / to fuel the blaze in the hearth / to rekindle his ardor for the earth

  Sam Keen

  Heart, Men, Fire

  Sam Keen (2010). “Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man”, p.9, Bantam

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• The strength of the people is effective only if it is concentrated; it evaporates and is lost when it is dispersed, just as gunpowder scattered on the ground ignites only grain by grain.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  People, Gunpowder, Lost

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• ...when men ignite in their hearts a religious fury, they inflict at the same time a blindness on their eyes.

  James A. Michener

  Religious, Heart, Eye

  James A. Michener (2013). “The Source: A Novel”, p.803, Dial Press

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• You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• We women need to rise to the occasion. The ayahuasca experience rebirths, inspires, empowers, and ignites us to do that. The Cosmic Sister Plant Spirit Grant is just one small way women can encourage and support women to take that journey and shine as they were born to do.

  Zoe Helene

  Journey, Ayahuasca, Empowering

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• Who can confidently say what ignites a certain combination of words, causing them to explode in the mind? Who knows why certain notes in music are capable of stirring the listener deeply, though the same notes slightly rearranged are impotent? These are high mysteries, and this chapter is a mystery story, thinly disguised.

  E. B. White

  Mind, Stories, Mystery

  William Strunk Jr., E.B. White (1962). “the Elements of Style”

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• We actors are superstitious creatures. We do all the homework and we put all of the components together, but there's always one key aspect that we're not in charge of, really, and that's magic. You are always on the lookout for where and how that magic is going to ignite. When you have worked as much as I have and have sought it out as often as I do, you get very clear that it will come at very, very odd, unexpected moments.

  Lorraine Toussaint

  Keys, Magic, Together

  Source: collider.com

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• God is most glorified in us when our knowledge and experience of Him ignite a forest fire of joy that consumes all competing pleasures and He alone becomes the treasure that we prize.

  Sam Storms

  Fire, Joy, Treasure

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• I have been and continue to be committed to art as a tool to ignite, comfort, and discomfort.

  Vivek Shraya

  Art, Comfort, Tools

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Oftentimes, you read these pilot scripts that come through for American work, and they dont sing to you. Ive got to be honest, not many of them ignite the flame or give you that burning feeling of, Oh, God, I really want to be a part of this.

  Antony Starr

  Flames, Giving, Feelings

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