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«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
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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
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burned, burned down, burn down, colored, coloring book, one of them
«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.»
«And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.»
«And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned? / Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.»
Author: Bible
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ammonite, Army of, break down, burned down, fortify, fox, heaps, rubbish heap
«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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