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The course that I have uniformly pursued, ever since I became a missionary, has been rather peculiar. In order to become an acceptable and eloquent preacher in a foreign language, I deliberately abjured my own. When I crossed the river, I burnt my ships.

~Adoniram Judson

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If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out.

~Alberto Juantorena

Topics: Athlete Athletes Because Burnt Calendar Career Carry Could Filling Keep Lasted Longevity Out Pushing Risk Shorten Up Years

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Like I said about Freaked, people tend to find these films, and I think that in the end the cool thing about a movie is that it can be sort of burnt temporarily, but then it's burnt into the fabric of your culture.

~Alex Winter

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When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible.

~Alexander Kluge

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I was tired and I had overworked myself and burnt myself out. So I went to Egypt by myself. When I saw what was built there, it made me understand how powerful we are, that we can create anything. And I felt like I needed to create things that were timeless too.

~Alicia Keys

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I think, sometimes, you can just get really burnt out on something you enjoy doing and feel like the sponge is completely wrung dry.

~Andrea Riseborough

Topics: Burnt Doing Dry Enjoy Feel Get Just Like Out Really Something Sometimes Sponge Think You I Think

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We never learnt the right lessons. We never went to the root of the problem. Once you start politicising religion, you play with fire and get burnt as well. Another lesson we did not learn is that Muslims are not homogenous.

~Asma Jahangir

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In my view, the adults are the burnt generation of Iraq for whom nothing can be done. But for the children, we can worry now, we can talk about them, we can plan for them, we can get our protest heard by others.

~Bahman Ghobadi

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There was a strange atmosphere on the set because we were filming in this large house, which was used for troubled children. You'd go in and find walls had been burnt down. The building was charged with this history and it stayed with us throughout the filming.

~Beatrice Dalle

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I've finally learnt how to say, 'No comment'. To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.

~Ben Affleck

Topics: Appear Better Burnt Comment Curve Finally Get Had How Learn Learning Learning Curve Learnt Quick Real Say Steep Tabloids You

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