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• No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.

  Harry Houdini

  Iron, Magic, Hot

  Harry Houdini (2015). “Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: Human Understanding”, p.38, 谷月社

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• The earth in its rapid motion round the sun possesses a degree of living force so vast that, if turned into the equivalent of heat, its temperature would be rendered at least one thousand times greater than that of red-hot iron, and the globe on which we tread would in all probability be rendered equal in brightness to the sun itself.

  James Prescott Joule

  Science, Iron, Would Be

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• I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Life, Sorry, Pain

  Zora Neale Hurston (1969). “Dust tracks on a road”

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• Patriotism, red hot, is compatible with the existence of a neglect of national interests, a dishonesty, a cold indifference to the suffering of millions. Patriotism is largely pride, and very largely combativeness. Patriotism generally has a chip on its shoulder.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Pride, Suffering, Hot

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Short Stories, Novels, Poems and Essays: The Yellow Wallpaper, What Diantha Did, Women and Economics, The Crux, Moving the Mountain, Herland and other works from the prominent American feminist, sociologist and novelist”, p.454, e-artnow

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• And thus Snow White became the prince's bride.
  The wicked queen was invited to the wedding feast
  and when she arrived there were
  red-hot iron shoes,
  in the manner of red-hot roller skates,
  clamped upon her feet.

  Anne Sexton

  Marriage, Queens, Iron

  Anne Sexton (2001). “Transformations”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is difficult to recognize true love, the one which you feel for the other person, when for years the girls, even more than one per night, after concerts would sneak in our beds and were willing to do everything - group sex also - just to stay with Anthony Kiedis and the Red Hot.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Girl, Sex, Night

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• Most poets' revisions are disastrous. They buckle and dent what was originally forged at a red-hot heat.

  Michael Longley

  Hot, Revision, Red

  Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk

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• The church has no power over our lives any more, which is something of a blessing for those who do not enjoy red-hot pokers or iron thumb-screws.

  Stephen Fry

  Blessing, Iron, Church

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• Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire.

  Ezra Pound

  Fire, Iron, Criticism

  The Spirit of Romance ch. 9 (1910)

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• There are happy blues, sad blues, lonesome blues, red-hot blues, mad blues, and loving blues. Blues is a testimony to the fullness of life.

  Corey Harris

  Fullness Of Life, Mad, Hot

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• It took me quite a long time to realise that my maleness was cutting off certain areas for Yoko [Ono]. She's a red hot liberationistand was quick to show me where I was going wrong, even though it seemed to me that I was just acting naturally. That's why I'm always interested to know how people who claim to be radical treat women.

  John Lennon

  Cutting, Long, People

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I have seen Christians in Communist prisons with fifty pounds of chains on their feet, tortured with red-hot iron pokers, in whose throats spoonfuls of salt had been forced, being kept afterward without water, starving, whipped, suffering from cold - and praying with fervor for the Communists. This is humanly inexplicable! It is the love of Christ, which was poured out in our hearts.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Christian, Heart, Iron

  "Tortured For Christ". Book by Richard Wurmbrand, June 1940.

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• If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.

  Diogenes

  Good Friend, Enemy, Hot

  "Moralia". Book by Plutarch, circa 100 AD.

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• One day, I'll be listening to a bunch of Ray Charles, the next day it's nothing but Red Hot Chili Peppers. The next day it might be Tupac all day.

  J. Cole

  Next Day, Listening, One Day

  "J Cole graduates to the big leagues". Interview with Michael Saba, www.cnn.com. November 8, 2011.

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• As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Adversity, Men, Fire

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• A little blue-eyed blonde in a red hot sweater, wants to spice my chili, I think I'll let her.

  Toby Keith

  Thinking, Blue, Sweaters

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• It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was what came of rebelling against the laws of Nature, Frederick and Pilkington said.

  George Orwell

  Animal, Law, Hot

  George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.14, Hamilton Books

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• Love can be a huge mountain, a gentle garden, a raging storm, a cool breeze, or a perfect bath. But there is always fire somewhere nearby. There is always the red-hot stuff of the soul's initiation. If there isn't fire, then it isn't love ... If it doesn't insist that you move to your next level, if it doesn't take your heart and make it explode in a million pieces, only to fall back together again in some Moment of enlightened understanding, then you haven't really loved.

  Marianne Williamson

  Moving, Fall, Heart

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• What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

  Saint Augustine

  Love, Jealousy, Anger

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• Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and even the self-hatred and sense of guilt that crime logically should produce but actually does not.

  Simone Weil

  Self, Iron, Hatred

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.40, Routledge

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• Dropkick Murphys get me going, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana... plus, all the regular hip-hop stuff.

  Kobe Bryant

  Hip Hop, Peppers, Hips

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• When America was first made known to Europe, the part assumed by France on the borders of that new world was peculiar, and is little recognized. While the Spaniard roamed sea and land, burning for achievement, red-hot with bigotry and avarice, and while England, with soberer steps and a less dazzling result, followed in the path of discovery and gold-hunting, it was from France that those barbarous shores first learned to serve the ends of peaceful commercial industry.

  Francis Parkman

  Hunting, Discovery, Europe

  Francis Parkman, David Levin (1983). “France and England in North America: Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old régime in Canada”, p.145, Library of America

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• Without (my wife) Laurie, I would never be here right now, I know that. I would either be in a coffin, or stashed away doing a life sentence some place. Or running and hiding some place, if I was still alive. I'm certain I wouldn't be playing music. She's just been perfect for me. And she's a protector also; she protects me from myself, from temptations, and bad associations. She's constantly shielding me from walking the red hot coals of existing as a game.

  Art Pepper

  Running, Women, Bad Ass

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• The Scythians take kannabis seed, creep in under the felts, and throw it on the red-hot stones. It smolders and sends up such billows of steam-smoke that no Greek vapor bath can surpass it. The Scythians howl with joy in these vapor-baths, which serve them instead of bathing, for they never wash their bodies with water.

  Herodotus

  Water, Joy, Greek

  "The Histories". Book by Herodotus, c. 440 BC.

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• In the beginning, in the time that was no time, nothing existed but the Womb. And the Womb was a limitless dark cauldron of all things in potential: a chaotic blood-soup of matter and energy, fluid as water yet mud-solid with salts of the earth; red-hot as fire yet restlessly churning and bubbling with all the winds. And the Womb was the Mother, before She took form and gave form to Existence. She was the Deep. . . .

  Barbara G. Walker

  Mother, Dark, Wind

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