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• All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

  Indira Gandhi

  Games, Cynical, Political

  Indira Gandhi (1985). “Selected Thoughts of Indira Gandhi: A Book of Quotes”, p.172, Mittal Publications

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• I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.

  Jackson Browne

  Song, Fire, Ideas

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• I am just another fireman because the story focuses on Joaquin Phoenix's character, but I play Joaquin's close friend and I get burned up a little bit, but I don't die.

  Morris Chestnut

  Character, Play, Phoenix

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.

  Shmuel Yosef Agnon

  Jerusalem, Return, Possession

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• First of all, in terms of investment in Internet-related developments, venture capitalists - once burned - are now very cautious and are investing in areas that actually make business sense.

  Vinton Cerf

  Entrepreneur, Decision, Investing

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• You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it

  Edward James Olmos

  Two, Years, Diversity

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• The Hardy Boys burned me out. I was recharging my batteries. It was time to return to work, but it was tough because my visibility was low

  Parker Stevenson

  Boys, Batteries, Return

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• Prior to that I produced a couple of TV movies for CBS, but the truth of the matter is that I burned out for a couple of years. I didn't do anything for a while, apart from taking up golf, for which I got a four handicap.

  Gil Gerard

  Couple, Golf, Years

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• I checked out all types of tobacco trying to find one that would be easiest to live with, I ended up using pipe tobacco. It burned slower, and it wasn't as harsh on my throat... It also smelled better.

  David Strathairn

  Trying, Would Be, Harsh

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• We got dragged through a system and got burned by crooked lawyers, and the list goes on and on.

  Gerald Caiafa

  Goes On, Lists, Lawyer

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• Experience burned into me the conviction that access to education ought to be based on how much you are willing to learn and how hard you are willing to work, not on how many dollars your family has in their bank account.

  Dave Obey

  Dollars, Conviction, Bank Accounts

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• You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Healing

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.51, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• The burned hand teaches best.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Hands, Growth, Action

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.584, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Friends

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• Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational Love, Grief, Wine

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.48, Lulu.com

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• “I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

  "Gems of Truth & Beauty".

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• Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.

  Heinrich Heine

  Reading, Book, Evil

  Almansor: A Tragedy l. 245 (1823)

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• We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive with the genuinely kind intention of saving souls from the eternal fire of hell.

  Karl Popper

  Love, Religious, War

  Karl Popper (2014). “Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge”, p.479, Routledge

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  Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

  Joan Crawford

  Love, Heartbreak, Dream

  Interview in "Hollywood Reporter", 1954.

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• The serial arsonist is the most difficult to apprehend because the evidence is burned up.

  Joseph Wambaugh

  Arson, Difficult, Evidence

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• Another method of eating burning coals employs small balls of burned cotton in a dish of burning alcohol.

  Harry Houdini

  Alcohol, Burning, Cotton

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.39, 谷月社

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• There was this thing written that I had gone into a candle store, and my hair went up in flames because of all the hair spray. First of all, I never have hair spray in my hair, and I've never even heard of this store, and my hair has never been burned.

  Nicollette Sheridan

  Hair, Flames, Gone

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• One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted.

  Thomas Reed

  Fear, Humorous, Atheism

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• History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Ideas, People, Literature

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Jun 22, 2011

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• [General Curtis] LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side has lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

  Robert McNamara

  Children, Winning, Men

  "The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara". Documentary, www.imdb.com. August 30, 2003.

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