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Letter "B" » burn down
«Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.»
Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick
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burned down, burning, burn down, get rid of, hating, rat, rid, rid of
«It doesn't take a genius to pump up the GNP [of a developing country] by burning down rainforests, using slave labor and social repression to keep things in place.»
Author: Hazel Henderson
| About:
Society
| Keywords:
burned down, burn down, developing, developing countries, GNP, in place, pump, pumping, pumps, slave labor
«Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.»
«I heard his library burned down and that both books were destroyed-and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.»
Author: John Dawkins
| Keywords:
burned, burned down, burn down, colored, coloring book, one of them
«There is not a person alive who isn't going to have some awfully bad days in their lives. I tell my players that what I mean by fighting is when your house burns down, and your wife runs off with the drummer, and you've lost your job and all the odds are against you. What are you going to do? Most people just lay down and quit. Well, I want my people to fight back.»
Author: Paul Bryant
(Coach)
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Against All Odds, awfully, burned down, Burns, burn down, drummer, fight back, Laid Back, lay down, lay off, odds, players, run off
«Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.»
Author: William Jennings Bryan
(Orator, Politician)
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as if by magic, burned down, burn down, cities, farms, spring up, The Streets
«If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.»
«Listen, lad. I built this kingdom up from nothing. When I started here, all there was was swamp. Other kings said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It sank into the swamp. So, I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one... stayed up! And that's what you're gonna get, lad: the strongest castle in these islands.»
«Is it possible for this boundless creation to be brought into existence by man, if there had been no Divine Principle behind it? For instance, fire is latent in the branches of a tree and in the tree itself. If the branches rub against each other, they may generate a fire which could burn down the tree, branches and all.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
boundless, Branches of, burn down, generate, instance
«Last week the candle factory burned down. Everyone just stood around and sang Happy Birthday.»
Author: Stephen Wright
(Actor, Writer)
| About:
Birthday
| Keywords:
burned, burned down, burn down, candle, factory, Happy Birthday, sang
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