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It cuts the risk to their health and also helps avoid fires. – Rajata Rajatanavin	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Shipboard fires must be suppressed, whereas in many civilian fires, a building can be considered a loss and the focus might shift to containing the fire to prevent spread, on a ship, fire suppression is critical to the survival of the ship and its personnel; confined spaces, smoke, heat and gases can be a threat to humans. – Thomas McKenna	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Personally, I don't think the government is managing this well, usually they just react after the fires start, but they should think more about prevention. – Sri Nurhayati Qodriyatun	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Fires were going on all the time, you could see the black clouds, smell of bodies, lying there and decaying. – Lotte Hershfield	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Unless we direct our energies in the right direction, we may very well fuel the very fires we want to put out, there’s no room for sectarian division, there’s no room for anti-Semitism or Islamophobia. – John Kerry	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Despite what happened in Roumieh prison, which has restored some of the state's standing, the situation in the country remains fragile, the danger is still there because Lebanon stands in the middle of fires and wars that are burning around it. – Rajeh Khoury	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I hope it will look and sound like a campaign season, we’re firing up in 2015, and we hope to keep those fires burning. – Jeff Kaufmann	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks. – James Baldwin	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in. – George Eliot	added by anonymous 10 years ago
If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires. – Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux	added by anonymous 10 years ago
If hell uses highly refined uranium and completely pure hydrogen to stoke its fires, the roaring furnaces there will still be too cold for these depraved beings. (Speaking about the leaders of North Korea...) read about it here: http://standfortheright.com/archives/540 – Dan Flikweert	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended. – Zsa Zsa Gabor	added by anonymous 13 years ago
As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs. – William Blake, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", 1790	added by anonymous 13 years ago
As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs. – William Blake	added by anonymous 14 years ago
. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky. . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed.... – Marcus Tullius Cicero	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon – George Walker Bush	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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. – Alekandr Sergeyevick Pushkin	added by anonymous 14 years ago

It cuts the risk to their health and also helps avoid fires.

– Rajata Rajatanavin

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Shipboard fires must be suppressed, whereas in many civilian fires, a building can be considered a loss and the focus might shift to containing the fire to prevent spread, on a ship, fire suppression is critical to the survival of the ship and its personnel; confined spaces, smoke, heat and gases can be a threat to humans.

– Thomas McKenna

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Personally, I don't think the government is managing this well, usually they just react after the fires start, but they should think more about prevention.

– Sri Nurhayati Qodriyatun

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Fires were going on all the time, you could see the black clouds, smell of bodies, lying there and decaying.

– Lotte Hershfield

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Unless we direct our energies in the right direction, we may very well fuel the very fires we want to put out, there’s no room for sectarian division, there’s no room for anti-Semitism or Islamophobia.

– John Kerry

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Despite what happened in Roumieh prison, which has restored some of the state's standing, the situation in the country remains fragile, the danger is still there because Lebanon stands in the middle of fires and wars that are burning around it.

– Rajeh Khoury

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I hope it will look and sound like a campaign season, we’re firing up in 2015, and we hope to keep those fires burning.

– Jeff Kaufmann

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

– James Baldwin

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.

– George Eliot

added by anonymous
10 years ago

If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires.

– Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

added by anonymous
10 years ago

If hell uses highly refined uranium and completely pure hydrogen to stoke its fires, the roaring furnaces there will still be too cold for these depraved beings. (Speaking about the leaders of North Korea...) read about it here: http://standfortheright.com/archives/540

– Dan Flikweert

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended.

– Zsa Zsa Gabor

added by anonymous
13 years ago

As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.

– William Blake, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", 1790

added by anonymous
13 years ago

As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.

– William Blake

added by anonymous
14 years ago

. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky. . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed....

– Marcus Tullius Cicero

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The pictures of airplanes flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness and a quiet, unyielding anger. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon

– George Walker Bush

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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.

– Alekandr Sergeyevick Pushkin

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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