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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

~Adam Mckay

Topics: Abortion Against Arabia Arrangement Corporate Cuts Fires Gay Gay Marriage House Marriage Old Push Religious Religious Right Rich Right Same Saudi Saudi Arabia Tax Tax Cuts Trick Up Uses Votes

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Really, most of us just focus on what's in front of us. We're too busy putting out the fires of everyday life.

~Aidan Quinn

Topics: Busy Everyday Everyday Life Fires Focus Front Just Life Most Out Putting Really Too Us

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There were periods when I sometimes made fires in a large, open fireplace that lasted about two weeks, which was how long it took to burn my compositions. So there has been an awful lot that I have destroyed.

~Alan Hovhaness

Topics: About Awful Awful Lot Been Burn Destroyed Fireplace Fires How Large Lasted Long Lot Made Open Periods Sometimes Took Two Two Weeks Weeks Were Which

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It's just very homey in Ireland. It's very comforting and comfortable. There's lots of fireplaces with fires. It's just really cozy.

~Amy Adams

Topics: Comfortable Comforting Cozy Fires Ireland Just Lots Really Very

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I'm kind of a gossip hound, but watching the media whip the small fires into giant forest fires so that they can cover the result is infuriating.

~Anne Lamott

Topics: Cover Fires Forest Giant Gossip Hound Kind Media Result Small Watching Whip

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The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.

~Anton Chekhov

Topics: Fires Hatred Hostility Petty World

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Fires of suffering and strife are raging around the world.

~Aung San Suu Kyi

Topics: Around Fires Raging Strife Suffering World

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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.

~Ban Ki-Moon

Topics: Acts Be Prepared Earthquakes Everything Fires Floods Must Nuclear Nuclear Power Plants Power Prepared Terrorism Withstand

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Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.

~Barney Ross

Topics: Black Burning Everything Fires Harbor Ships Some Still Were

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About 100 firefighters a year die in the line of duty in the U.S. Heart attacks on the job and vehicle accidents on the way to the fires account for about half. The other half are traumatic deaths while fighting fires.

~Bill Dedman

Topics: About Accidents Account Attacks Deaths Die Duty Fighting Firefighters Fires Half Heart Job Line Other Traumatic Vehicle Way While Year

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