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SALACITY, n. A certain literary quality frequently observed in popular novels, especially in those written by women and young girls, who give it another name and think that in introducing it they are occupying a neglected field of letters and reaping an overlooked harvest. If they have the misfortune to live long enough they are tormented with a desire to burn their sheaves.

Pushing kids too early is a problem I've seen through the years. If you start them too early, by the time they're in high school they're burned out on it.

Real' love is like a bird, which just soars higher and higher, whether or not it finds it's Pinnacle, even if it gets burnt a zillion times...it never ever 'even' thinks of going back to where it took off from...yeah...that's real love!!

People today get into this business because they want to end up famous and on the Food Network. They burn out and end up selling real estate.

As the plant grows it is drawing carbon dioxide out of the air. When you burn it you put that carbon dioxide back, so the net effect on atmospheric CO2 is zero.

A significant Nasdaq rally will be difficult. Those who were burned in the dive will see a $5 stock go up to $9 and then get out. Today's tough investing environment is in some ways distinct from what is actually happening in the economy.

As if a fire is burning him, as if the forest-fire burns in various directions, this jealousy of his do thou quench, as a fire (is quenched) with water!

Conrad Burns is definitely running, and he's going to win.

Bruce Springsteen

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary/Out by the gas fires of the refinery/I'm 10 years burning down the road/Nowhere to run ain't got nowhere to go,

And they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them: there was not any left to breathe: and he burnt Hazor with fire.

Rupert Grint

They were just kind of simultaneous - the film ending and the sets being destroyed. I was struck the first time I saw the Great Hall become a big pile of burning rubble and getting scattered around. It's really quite shocking for the fans.

They were forced to withdraw, and as they were withdrawing the men operating the lines sustained burns while making sure the other guys got out safely.

This haggling over who pays what should have been resolved long ago, ... We cannot stand by and watch a family residence burn to the ground, whether it's a mobile home or a mansion.

Alan Simpson

They're talking about things that, if I had talked about, they would have burned my humble butt.

They've been trying to put corn in our gas tanks but we don't have the vehicles to burn it.

They told me it was burnt and they don't have any evidence from within, but they identified it as the vehicle.

David Mann

A lot of people felt very burned by that, and it probably underlies a lot of what's going on now. But ... somehow, someway, they've got to get together.

A lot of investors ignore these people because they've burnt them so badly. When all the pompoms get replaced, that's usually the sign of a bottom.

A lot of investors ignore these people because they've burnt them so badly, ... When all the pompoms get replaced, that's usually the sign of a bottom.

A lot of energy was being diffused and burned up in the process.

A lot of people were left holding the burning carcasses of those companies. We've learned a lot in the last few years. The market has become more selective.

a man probably responsible for 50 deaths, the burning of hundreds of homes, destruction of villages and who currently holds several dozen people as hostage.

Youre through. Finished. Burned out. Used up. Youve been replaced. . . forgotten. Thats a lie!

You should burn very cautiously. If you're burning your trash off, for example in a 55-gallon drum, the big thing is to keep a screen over it and watch for any embers that pop out.

You should be burning by now. If you're not, I don't know what's wrong with you.

Khalil Gibran

Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafairing soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

Your powerful radiance is burning the entire universe, and filling it with splendor, O Krishna.

You're burning a fuel to create a fuel. It doesn't seem very efficient to use what is a valuable energy source to turn rock into oil.

You might hear a song you like on 'Desperate Housewives' and automatically download it, watch the video, send it to your handheld device and burn it to a CD. All those things are possible in the fairly near future.

This is good stuff. It's one of those stories that's easy to make assumptions about. There could be a lot of reasons why the place burned down.

There were kids as old as 14 and 15 who couldn't write past the letter H. Whenever they were raided by government troops the first thing the soldiers did was burn the books.

Terry Moore

There was this pool of money sitting in the retirement funds, that was not part of the (state treasury). A couple of legislatures burned up that surplus. We came back to ground zero and then we got into the loss years.

There were some people out there burning the ditches, and it got a little too close to the structure.