#burning

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

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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

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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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If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals. ↗

— Lou Holtz

#bored #burning #burning desire #desire #enough

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

— Harry Houdini

#another #balls #burned #burning #coals

The eating of burning brimstone is an entirely fake performance. ↗

— Harry Houdini

#eating #entirely #fake #performance

All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

#burning #demonic #get #heretics #need

I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#buddhas #burning #deep #deeply #destroying