“ No one will burn out doing aerobic running. It is too much anaerobic running, which the American scholastic athletic system tends to put young athletes through, that burns them out. ”
- Arthur Lydiard- Copy
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“ I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, 'I'd like some fries.' The girl at the counter said, 'Would you like some fries with that?'. ”
- Jay Leno- Copy
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“ I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me. ”
- Dick Martin- Copy
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“ A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame. ”
- Boris Yeltsin- Copy
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“ The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods and meadows brown and sear. ”
- William C. Bryant- Copy
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“ Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. ”
- Kahlil Gibran- Copy
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“ Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again. ”
- Edgar Allan Poe- Copy
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“ FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institution, a woman's kitchen. The frying-pan was invented by Calvin, and by him used in cooking span-long infants that had died without baptism; and observing one day the horrible torment of a tramp who had incautiously pulled a fried babe from the waste-dump and devoured it, it occurred to the great divine to rob death of its terrors by introducing the frying-pan into every household in Geneva… ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
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“ Thus the scene of the tragedy of Liberty world over must be suffering and discontent among the people. The drama moves swiftly in a torrent of words in which real purposes are disguised in portrayals of Utopia; idealism without realism; slogans, phrases and statements destructive to confidence in existing institutions; demands for violent action against slowly curable ills; unfair representation that sporadic wickedness is the system itself; searing prejudice against the former order; dismay and panic in the economic organization which feeds on its own despair… ”
- Herbert Clark Hoover- Copy
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