"I would rather be ashes than dust! I……" — Jack London

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• A normal way that the American free market system has worked is that we have a process of unwinding. It's… — Michele Bachmann
• It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise… — Anne Baxter
• Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave. — Thomas Browne
• Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. — Leonard Cohen
• Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the… — Marcus Aurelius
• There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shore of silence or where the storm… — Pablo Neruda
• Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will… — George W. Bush
• The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and… — Miguel de Cervantes
• A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow… — Tennessee Williams
• To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late. — Martial
• When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle… — Samuel Rutherford

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