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«I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.»
Author: Jack London
(Novelist, Writer)
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«Like all great champions, Tiger has the ability to raise his game when he has to. He's not going to burn out because he plays for his own joy and passion.»
«Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.»
Author: Joseph Campbell
(Author, Editor, Philosopher, Teacher)
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«It's better to burn out than it is to rust»
«It's better to burn out, then to fade away.»
Author: Neil Young
(Guitarist, Singer)
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«People don't want to know that as a woman, I made my own decision as a woman to leave, It has to be I was so burnt out or in love. [On her decision to quit E.R.]»
«Guys ask me, don't I get burned out? How can you get burned out doing something you love? I ask you, have you ever got tired of kissing a pretty girl?»
Author: Tommy Lasorda
(Baseball Player, Coach)
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«Time drops in decay,Like a candle burnt out,And the mountains and woodsHave their day, have their day;»
«Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
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«Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish: Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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