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I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the star-less night, - blown and flared by passion's storm, - and yet, it is the only light. Extinguish that, and nought remains. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the star-less night, -- blown and flared by passion's storm, -- and yet, it is the only light. Extinguish that, and nought remains. -- Robert G. Ingersoll
You don't extinguish fire by adding more fire, you need water. -- Pope Shenouda III
We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious. -- Gaylord Nelson
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. -- A. E. Housman
Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again. -- Francis Bacon
In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies. -- Terry Waite
It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime. -- John Ashcroft
Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others. -- Alexander Hamilton
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. -- Thomas Jefferson
When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an optimistic genre. What it says at the end of the day is that there is a tomorrow, we do go on, we don't extinguish ourselves and leave the planet to the cockroaches. -- J. Michael Straczynski
Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. -- A. E. Housman
What I set seems to never extinguish -- Drake
It is only light that can extinguish darkness. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
May the light of your soul extinguish all darkness. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
No kind of bomb ever built will extinguish hatred. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves. -- Tabitha Suzuma
I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul. -- Arthur Rimbaud
Want to extinguish an adolescent's curiosity? Cover as much material as possible. -- Kelly Gallagher
All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle. -- Francis of Assisi
No degree of worldly darkness can extinguish the glow of a soul's inner light. -- Wes Fesler
It is, we believe, Idle to hope that the simple stirrup-pump Can extinguish hell. -- Henry Reed
The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space. -- Lord Byron
Cool the flames of your anger by performing the wudhu for only water can extinguish fire. -- Muhammad
Darkness will always try to extinguish the light. The light will always try to repress the darkness. -- Morgan Rhodes
The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it. -- Charles Duhigg
Don't challenge the world before becoming a big fire; otherwise they will extinguish you even with little spits! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Money can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, encourage unethical behavior, foster short-term thinking, and become addictive. -- Daniel H. Pink
How can we extinguish a fire if we don't first cut off the fuel that ignites the inferno? -- Arun Manilal Gandhi
Nothing remains but to hope the end will come to extinguish the unrelenting pain of waiting for it. -- Pier Paolo Pasolini
It is much easier to extinguish a first desire than to satisfy all of those that follow it. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The torch of liberty is hot; warms those who hold it high; burns those who try to extinguish it. -- Ronald Reagan
The philosopher who would fain extinguish his passions resembles the chemist who would like to let his furnace go out. -- Nicolas Chamfort
Determination is power. If the prospect be dark, kindle up the fire of resolution that nothing but death can extinguish. -- Charles Simmons
To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life. -- William Ellery Channing
If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it. -- Thomas Jefferson
To believe in a universe as young as 6- or 7,000 years old, is to extinguish the light of most of the galaxy. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish. -- Tom Perrotta
What if English toil and blood Was poured forth, even as a flood? It availed, Oh, Liberty, To dim, but not extinguish thee. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nirvana means to extinguish the burning fires of the Three Poisons: greed, anger, and ignorance. This can be accomplished by letting go of dissatisfaction. -- Shinjo Ito
We must realize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious. -- Gaylord Nelson
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out . . .. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. -- A. E. Housman
A candle can't cease the darkness, the fear that it may extinguish is itself dark. Adapt to darkness and there will be no darkness within. -- Tushar Chauhan
Love cannot be seeded into someone. It is a fire that is difficult to kindle but once it takes on, it is equally difficult to extinguish. -- Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
Attempts to extinguish me don't even bother me none. Like retarded kids throwing ice cubes at the sun, a victory against Immortal Technique will never be done. -- Immortal Technique
The atmosphere of officialdom would kill anything that breathes the air of human endeavour, would extinguish hope and fear alike in the supremacy of paper and ink. -- Joseph Conrad
Torrents of blood have been spilt in the world in vain attempts of the secular arm to extinguish religious discord, by proscribing all differences in religious opinions. -- James Madison
At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves. -- Tabitha Suzuma
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The rich women, to avoid dividing the inheritance among many, kill their own fetus in the womb and with murderous juices extinguish in the genital chamber their children. -- Ambrose
Your anger is the fire which can burn the whole world, but forgiveness is the water which can extinguish the fire and bloom the flowers of peace and love. -- Debasish Mridha
Unconsciousness of self is not so much unselfishness as it is the mental ability to extinguish all thought of one's self - exactly as one turns out the light. -- Emily Post
Unfaithfulness ought to extinguish love, and we should not be jealous when there is reason to be. Only those who give no grounds for jealousy are worthy of it. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Alms in secret extinguish the wrath of the Lord means you are so immersed in sincerity and in preserving that sincerity that you have no pleasure in giving alms. -- Shams Tabrizi
You use metaphor to make yourself feel at home in the world. You use metaphor to extinguish the unknown. The problem is the unknown is where I want to be. -- Roni Horn
You cannot conquer Ireland. You cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom, then our children will win by a better deed. -- Patrick Pearse
Even if you tried to extinguish your personality, what is left in the story will reflect it, perhaps by its negation. Our lives provide the bricks from which we build these cathedrals. -- Aleksandar Hemon
Together in Britain we have lit a flame that the ages shall not extinguish. Guard that sacred flame my brother Blackshirts until it illuminates Britain and lights again the Paths of Mankind. -- Oswald Mosley
Only those who do not care, only those who find a way to diminish or extinguish the value of other human beings, survive wars without damage and speak of warrior honor afterward. -- Aleksandar Hemon
Above all, it behooves us to repress, and if possible to extinguish once and for all, our inveterate tendency to judge others by the extent to which they contrive to be like ourselves. -- George F. Kennan
To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.' -- Francis Bacon

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