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• John Kerry is finding out that it is no fun to be the front runner, that's when you get all the heat. He had to deny internet rumors this week that he had Botox treatments. The Republicans say Kerry should have a clear, unfurrowed brow the old fashioned way by not giving a sh--.

  Bill Maher

  Fun, Should Have, Giving

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• Some heat, some spice and plenty of citrus are the building blocks of many north African fish dishes.

  Yotam Ottolenghi

  Block, Spices, Building

  "Yotam Ottolenghi's recipes for roasted rhubarb with sweet labneh, plus halibut and harissa stew with lemon ricotta" by Yotam Ottolenghi, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2012.

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• Lust, that state commonly known as 'being in love,' is a kind of madness. It is a distortion of reality so remarkable that it should, by rights, enable most of us to understand the other forms of lunacy with the sympathy of fellow-sufferers. But, paradoxically, mad and suffering as one is, and the heat of the flame, few of us are glad as we feel that passion slip away No, while most people have been at their unhappiest when in love, it is nevertheless the state the human being yearns for above all.

  Julian Fellowes

  Passion, Being In Love, Reality

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• The next innovation, Sensavision, will be like a Walkman attached to your forehead. You won't actually have your head wired because infrared wires will send signals to you. In 2007 Mick Jagger will be on stage, and when Mick feels heat, you'll feel heat.

  Tony Verna

  Innovation, Wire, Next

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• Who among you today is doing the most for your Master's kingdom? I will tell you. Lend me a spiritual thermometer by which I may try the heat of your heart, and I will tell you the amount of your success.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Spiritual, Heart, Trying

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• Congress will be tempted to wipe their hands of this, go to the Election Day and say 'we've done our part' and that's where groups like ours, Concerned Veterans for America, veterans across the country have to keep the heat on them to say this is just the start. VA is not fixed.

  Pete Hegseth

  Country, Hands, America

  "Records show Obama met just once with Shinseki during VA scandal" by Mike Emanuel, www.foxnews.com. August 7, 2014.

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• I grew up in the heat of '70s postmodern fiction and post-Godard films, and there was this idea that what mattered was the theory or meta in art.

  Noah Baumbach

  Art, Ideas, Fiction

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The way to get rid of darkness is with light; the way to overcome cold is with heat; the way to overcome the negative thought is to substitute the good thought. Affirm the good, and the bad will vanish.

  Joseph Murphy

  Light, Darkness, Overcoming

  Joseph Murphy, Ph.D., D.D. (2011). “The Power of Your Subconscious Mind: Unlock the Secrets Within”, p.78, Penguin

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• And though behind you lies a road of dust and heat and discouragement, and before you the challenge and uncertainty of untried paths, in this brief hour you are master of all highways, and the universe nestles in your soul.

  Max Ehrmann

  Lying, Dust, Challenges

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• The soul, which is the first principle of life, is not a body, but the act of a body; just as heat, which is the principle of calefaction, is not a body, but an act of a body.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Soul, Body, Firsts

  Thomas Aquinas (1997). “Basic Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas: Volume One”, p.683, Hackett Publishing

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• But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Solitude, Lust

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• Many writers are neither spirit nor wine, but rather spirits- of-wine: they can catch fire, and then they give off heat.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wine, Fire, Giving

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• Friendship is evanescent in every man's experience, and remembered like heat lightning in past summers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Summer, Past

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.278

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• What signifies Philosophy that does not apply to some Use? May we not learn from hence, that black Clothes are not so fit to wear in a hot Sunny Climate or Season, as white ones; because in such Cloaths the Body is more heated by the Sun when we walk abroad, and are at the same time heated by the Exercise, which double Heat is apt to bring on putrid dangerous Fevers? The Soldiers and Seamen, who must march and labour in the Sun, should in the East or West Indies have an Uniform of white?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Philosophy, Exercise, West Indies

  Benjamin Franklin (1806). “The Complete Works, in Philosophy, Politics, and Morals, of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Now First Collected and Arranged: with Memoirs of His Early Life, Written by Himself ; in Three Volumes”, p.109

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• But what would interest you about the brook,
  It's always cold in summer, warm in winter.

  Robert Frost

  Summer, Winter, Rivers

  Robert Frost (2013). “Delphi Works of Robert Frost (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• In the domain of art there is no light without heat.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Light, Domain

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• Logic, like language, is partly a free construction and partly a means of symbolizing and harnessing in expression the existing diversities of things; and whilst some languages, given a man's constitution and habits, may seem more beautiful and convenient to him than others, it is a foolish heat in a patriot to insist that only his native language is intelligible or right.

  George Santayana

  Beautiful, Mean, Men

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• Climate of Egypt in winter is the reign of spring upon earth, & summer in the air, and tranquility in the heat.

  Herman Melville

  Summer, Spring, Winter

  Herman Melville, Howard C. Horsford, Lynn Horth (1989). “Journals”, p.77, Northwestern University Press

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• The Enormous Room seems to me to be the book that has nearest approached the mood of reckless adventure in which men will reach the white heat of imagination needed to fuse the soggy disjointed complexity of the industrial life about us into seething fluid of creation. There can be no more playing safe.

  John Dos Passos

  Book, Creativity, Adventure

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• I, in my brand new body,
  which was not a woman's yet,
  told the stars my questions
  and thought God could really see
  the heat and the painted light,
  elbows, knees, dreams, goodnight.

  Anne Sexton

  Dream, Stars, Light

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's such a surprise for the Eastern eyes to see,
  That though the English are effete
  They're quite impervious to heat.

  Noel Coward

  Eye, England, Surprise

  Noel Coward, Barry Day (2009). “The Essential Noël Coward Compendium: The Very Best of His Work, Life and Times”, p.178, A&C Black

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• Dandyism is the last flicker of heroism in decadent ages.... Dandyism is a setting sun; like the declining star, it is magnificent, without heat and full of melancholy. But alas! the rising tide of democracy, which spreads everywhere and reduces everything to the same level, is daily carrying away these last champions of human pride, and submerging, in the waters of oblivion, the last traces of these remarkable myrmidons.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Stars, Pride, Water

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• For myself and my loved ones, I want the heat, which comes at the speed of light. I don't want to have to hang about for the blast, which idles along at the speed of sound.

  Martin Amis

  Light, Sound, Want

  Martin Amis (2010). “Einstein's Monsters”, p.18, Random House

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• Thank God I'm over the hill. The only heat I have left comes from hot flashes, my promiscuity is confined to the words "one size fits all," and I buy my white cotton unmentionables at Boadicea's Retreat, not Victoria's Secret. None of the things men do to women could possibly happen to me now unless the U.S. is invaded by one of those new Russian republics whose soldiers aren't fussy.

  Florence King

  Women, White, Hot Flashes

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• I do believe that those who compare the religious Right to the Nazis have fallen victim to polemical heat prostration.

  Richard John Neuhaus

  Christian, Religious, Believe

  Richard John Neuhaus, Michael Cromartie, Ethics and Public Policy Center (Washington, D.C.) (1987). “Piety and politics: evangelicals and fundamentalists confront the world”, Ethics & Public Policy Center

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