Charles Eisenstein
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Behold, how great a matter a lit... BIBLE STEPHEN WRIGHT When I put a quarter into an arcade machine or call up an emulated game on my computer, I do it to e... D. B. WEISS HARUKI MURAKAMI GEORGE R.R. MARTIN JORGE LUIS BORGES I looked to my left and saw this huge fire raging. I looked back into the room and screamed, 'Oh my ... BETH BOSTROM Is there a war on cops? Is there a war on the Black man? Who is going to call a cease fire? BOBBY F. KIMBROUGH JR. A computer is powerful enough to control the world, but is limited to the idiot sitting behind it. DUSTIN H. MATHENY LAUREN MYRACLE I bet," said Mulch, "that you would set the world on fire just to watch it burn."EOIN COLFER (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON JOHN WAYNE It was 100,000 years before we figured out what to do with fire. Humans learned how to use fire to c... JULIAN CASABLANCAS JORGE LUIS BORGES When a story is flying along, and I'm so into it that my 'real' world goes away, it can ... NANCY KRESS KATE MIDDLETON KATE MIDDLETON SUFJAN STEVENS To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ... GARY F EVANS... CRAIG GROESCHEL If I am guilty of hiding among tinier people in a tinier parallel world, it is because I am searchin... KYO MACLEAR, BIRDS ART LIFE: A YEAR OF OBSERVATION FAN BINGBING STEVEN MAGEE ENOCK MAREGESI It was a big unknown at the beginning. I've never had anything like this as far as a fire extinguish... DANIEL KING For me, my life is a journey. JAY ELECTRONICA ORHAN PAMUK EUGENE V. DEBS EUGENE V. DEBS EUGENE DEBS A.S. KING I've had tons of odd jobs, but I think that I would probably be a fireman because you get to see the... LUKE PERRY I've had tons of odd jobs, but I think that I would probably be a fireman because you get to see... LUKE PERRY BETSY HODGES The boy said he'd seen a light on at the kennel. I walked into the front room and looked across the ... MALINDA GARR ANDREA GIBSON We climbed on the fire truck and I drove it, but it didn't move because I don't have my license. AMANDA ALLEN I cannot write a speech. The pen is an extinguisher upon my mind and a torture to my nerves. I am th... LUCIUS QUINTUS CINCINNATUS LAMAR II Am like a Fire Fly, Charged to Execute my Flames to Light this World up, therefore, you have to Kill... RYAN LEONARD AL GORE Go forth and set the world on fire. IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA HENRY MILLER The world is burning in the fire of desire, in greed, arrogance and excessive ego. SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB EUGENE V. DEBS GEORGE R. R. MARTIN MARY CAROLINE RICHARDS FRANK ZAPPA We don't know how the fire started. He (Hinton) said that he left the hotel and went to KFC to get s... GERRY MCGHEE ROBERT FROST Fire Station 12 is a beautiful reminder of the heritage that is the Knoxville Fire Department's, ...... CARLOS PEREZ SOURCE UNKNOWN Fire is known to be fire because of the heat it produce JOEL LOCKTA JEANNETTE WALLS JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Love I want you for my mate because you have eyes the color of smoke. Because you are wicked sexy, b... JENNIFER ASHLEY MARIA V. SNYDER TED NUGENT i have been receiving fon calls about the status below to clarify what i meant. With all humility, t... MARY TORNYENYOR JEANNETTE WALLS TENNESSEE WILLIAMS TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS TENNESSEE WILLIAMS It is simple for me: I am aiming for the world championship. This is a team that is defending the wo... GIANCARLO FISICHELLA CRAIG GROESCHEL You had all these naked ladies sitting around, and a computer geek with a clip-on tie is sitting the... ROBERT STEPHENS ANNIE DILLARD LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI I am not a teacher in my heart," she said. "I am a doer, and all these little shitheads in front of ... ALLAN DARE PEARCE In mid-America, the mid-sized and small communities where fire protection is (done by) volunteers, t... DOUG WILLIAMS In mid-America, the mid-sized and small communities where fire protection is (done by) volunteers, t... DOUG WILLIAMS BILL BRYSON FREDERICK BUECHNER Fire looks mean to some, but to me I see a perfect example of my love for you. My love is like fire ... LARRY MICHAEL TERRY DOROTHY PARKER
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The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain. 
She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... 
It is a lie. 
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You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." 
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I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... 
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth. 
I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire. 
And yet, and yet… Denying temporal succession, denying the self, denying the astronomical universe... 
When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire. 
There are people in the world, who are just wrong, and then there are the masses of population that ... 
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Mother Superior jump the gun...
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I don't know if I have a favorite color. 
It's very special having a new little girl. 
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The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. 
I carry an umbrella when I am outdoors and always wear sunscreen, even when I am sitting in front of... 
It is my expectation that if I call 911 for the police that I will be blatantly harassed. 
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When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my... 
I have no country to fight for: my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. 
I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world. 
Today I am in control because I want to be. I have my fingers on the switch, but have lived a lifeti... 
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My mouth is a fire escape.
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Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit... 
It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice; there are two other possibilities: on... 
Fire and Ice
Religion is insurance in this world against fire in the next. 
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So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream. 
I could never hate anyone I knew. 
Go, forget me - why should sorrow, O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me - and tomorrow, ... 
We said that a single injustice, a single crime, a single illegality, particularly if it is official... 
We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death. 
There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms ... 
Make em laugh; make em cry; make em wait. 
The power of administrative bodies to make finding of fact which may be treated as conclusive, if th... 
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The rigid saint, by whom no mercy's shown
To saints whose lives are better than his own. 
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She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book. 
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