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The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination.

— Michael Leunig

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.

— Jamie Oliver

Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.

— Otto Weininger

I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other.

— Barbara Kingsolver

What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it.

— Joseph Wambaugh

I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secure, healthy and durable.

— Amory Lovins

Fire is our first form of technology.

— Ridley Scott

At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

— Taylor Swift

A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

✗Opposing Perspectives

Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.

— Dorothea Lange