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There’s plenty of fire in the coldest flint!

—Rachel Field, 1939

Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.

—Isadora Duncan, c. 1902

What is life but organized energy?

—Arthur C. Clarke, 1958

Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.

—Susanne K. Langer, 1942

The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry to equanimity, receptivity, and peace is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal center of energy.

—William James, 1902

Fire destroys that which feeds it.

—Simone Weil, c. 1940

The brightest light burns the quickest.

—Olive Beatrice Muir, 1900

I care. I care about it all. It takes too much energy not to care.

—Lorraine Hansberry, 1965
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