#burning

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom. ↗

— George William Curtis

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There's always some amount of gradual, slow burning destruction over the course of partying. ↗

— Gavin DeGraw

#amount #burning #course #destruction #gradual

Every few thousand years some shepard inhales smoke from a burning bush and has a vision or eats moldy rye bread in a cave and sees God. ↗

— Kerry Thornley

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Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books. ↗

— John Dingell

#books #burning #destruction #ever #having

Brave people are the firemen who run into the burning building. That's brave. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#building #burning #firemen #into #people

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#cook #destroying #economic #gain #like

It was with 9/11 that I came to fully appreciate and embrace NPR's irreplaceability as a sanity preserver, its unique virtues as first responder on the burning scene. ↗

— James Wolcott

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Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl. ↗

— George Meredith

#burning #jealousy #love

When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#burning desire #desire #fresh #had #i

I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it. ↗

— William Hague

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