You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
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The meteor flag of England Shall yet terrific burn, Till danger's troubled night depart, And the star of peace return.
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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.
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Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame, if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.
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Though friendship is not quick to burn, It is explosive stuff.
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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
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I've lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust Now all that's left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.
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Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice. But stand back now the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon. Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart.
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Life is no brief candle for me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
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Sarah If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn. People die. But real love lives forever.
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Earn but don't burn.
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Ardeat ipsa licet, tormentia gaudet amantis. (Though she may herself burn, she delights in her lover's torment.)
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Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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Double, double toil and trouble Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
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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 proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn people.
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If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag wash it.
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If you would be pungent, be brief for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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The only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to love, mad to talk, mad to be saved the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.
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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
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Indians are plenty smart. We catch small wood. Build small fire. Stand close and stay warm all over. White men not so smart. They catch big wood. Build big fire. Stand far away, burn face and freeze ass.
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Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.
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Time is the fire in which we burn.
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