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  • I think we have to acknowledge that people are different and succeed at different things, first of all. Men are better than women at some professions like firefighting, construction work, and physics. But women are better than men at some professions, too, like elementary teaching, prostitution, and giving birth. Who's to say which is more important?

    Teaching   Men   Thinking  
  • I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine.

    Men   Thinking   Fire  
    Kurt Vonnegut (2007). “The Sirens of Titan”, p.247, Dial Press
  • If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who make it their professional business to put it out?

    Men   Fire   Wrath  
  • An astonishing book. In compelling language, both homely and elegant, Young Men and Fire miraculously combines a fascinating primer on fires and firefighting, a powerful, breathtakingly real reconstruction of a tragedy, and a meditation on writing, grief and human character.... Maclean's last book will stir your heart and haunt your memory.

  • For safety is not a gadget but a state of mind.

    Safety   Mind   Gadgets  
  • Yesterday, two firefighters with the Florida Division of Forestry were killed while working on the Blue Ribbon Fire in Florida. On behalf of the 3,500 firefighters on the Wallow Fire and all of us in the firefighting community, our heartfelt condolences go out to their families and their co-workers. “If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor those who make it their professional business to put it out?

  • Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.

    'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 2, sc. 3, l. [11]
  • I've had tons of odd jobs, but I think that I would probably be a fireman because you get to see the results of your job. You get there and there is a house on fire. You leave and there's not a fire anymore.

    Jobs   Thinking   Fire  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

    Hero   Men   Firefighter  
    Henry David Thoreau, Robert Lawrence France, Thoreau Society (2001). “Thoreau on Water: Reflecting Heaven”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Fire is the best of servants, but what a master!

    Fire   Masters   Servant  
    Thomas Carlyle (1862). “Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus”, p.88
  • I think what they've been doing is largely almost in firefighting mode without a good conceptual framework - either at the micro or the macro level. Micro, you would ask: "What kind of financial or banking system do we want?" Macro, you would say: "What are the underlying problems in the structure of our economy?"

    Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. May 27, 2011.
  • Seems to me the basic conflict between men and women, sexually, is that men are like firemen. To men, sex is an emergency, and no matter what we're doing we can be ready in two minutes. Women, on the other hand, are like fire. They're very exciting, but the conditions have to be exactly right for it to occur.

  • Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women, policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes. And the stereotypical view of people of a world divided between home and child caring women and men as breadwinners, men representing the family outside the home.

    Children   Home   Caring  
    "Exclusive Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg interview: Full transcript". "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. February 17, 2015.
  • President Obama has a good sense not just of the economic requisites for financial crisis firefighting but also how you build political support for moving forward on reforming the financial system, making sure that the banks are carrying enough capital.

  • When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires.

    Dad   Father   Fire  
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