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  • Marshall Mcluhan Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Buffalo Bill Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
    French Christian mystic, author (1881 - 1955)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull,
    And cut a six-inch valley through the middle of my skull.
    At night I wake up with the sheets soaking wet
    and a freight train running through the middle of my head.
    Only you can cool my desire.
    Oh, I'm on fire.
    Born In The U.S.A. (1984) Im On Fire
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Arnold H. Glasgow Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.
    Arnold H. Glasgow
    American editor and businessman (Born as Arnold Henry Glasow) (1905 - 1998)
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  • Bernard Williams Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire.
    Bernard Williams
    English philosopher (1929 - 2003)
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  • William Lloyd Garrison Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation in a case like the present.
    William Lloyd Garrison
    American abolitionist, journalist and suffragist (1805 - 1879)
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  • Auguste Rodin The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
    Auguste Rodin
    French sculptor (1840 - 1917)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could not long go on without slight whiffs of external smoke, such as mark the course of subterranean fire.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • John F. Kennedy The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring this endeavor will light our bounty and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Richard Nixon The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Burke Marshall The fire trucks are out, there are thousands of people in the streets. You have a choice. You can have this, or you let Negroes eat at the lunch counters.
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Buffalo Bill The McCarthy boys, at the proper moment, gave orders to fire upon the advancing enemy.
    DeSylva, Buddy
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Sean O'Casey The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.
    Sean O'Casey
    Irish Dramatist (1880 - 1964)
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  • Plutarch The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Helena Petrova Blavatsky The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire - the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Benjamin Franklin The proof of gold is fire...
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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