#extinguish

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. ↗

— A. E. Housman

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It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime. ↗

— John Ashcroft

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Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

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Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. ↗

— Roger de Rabutin

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Without energy life would be extinguished instantaneously, and the cellular fabric would collapse. ↗

— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

#collapse #energy #extinguished #fabric #instantaneously

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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You don't extinguish fire by adding more fire, you need water. ↗

— Pope Shenouda III

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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth. ↗

— Navjot Singh Sidhu

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As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an abyss where life is either extinguished , or exhibits but a few sparks to mark its lingering presence. ↗

— Edward Forbes

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