Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with ten or eleven years of experience as human beings. It is, I think, a magical time - when so much has been learned, but not yet enough to entirely extinguish the magical reach and freedom of early childhood.

American Author

Timothy B. Schmit

I've had a lot of people pass away in my life. I guess it's all a matter of how you deal with your mortality - and recognizing that you are mortal. I'm trying to see what a gift life is and how quickly it can be extinguished, without any warning.

American Musician

Jean Dujardin

I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things - in the same film. Just as in my life, I can be very funny and at other times almost extinguished.

French Actor

John Ashcroft

It doesn't help to wait until something happens and then prosecute the offenders, especially if it's the idea of the offender to extinguish himself in the commission of the crime.

American Public Servant

Terry Waite

The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.

British Author

Ingmar Bergman

When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.

Swedish Director

Ivan Turgenev

Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.

Russian Novelist

William Penn

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

English Leader

Gaylord Nelson

We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.

American Politician

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

French Writer

Used when someone physically puts out a fire or light.

Literal Action

Emphasizes that the fire or light is gone, not just reduced.

Complete Action

Indicates the total end or death of a concept, idea, or feeling.

End of Existence

Often used in a bad way, implying loss or something being wrongfully taken away.

Negative Connotation

Implies a strong action that requires effort to remove or end something.

Powerful Force

Indicates a major success in paying off a debt completely.

Financial Achievement

Shows full compliance with a financial obligation according to the law.

Legal Fulfillment

 where the dodo bird was discovered and extinguished, all within about 150 years. Everyone was very excited about this archaeological find, because it meant that they might finally be able to assemble a single dodo skeleton. See, while museums all over the world have dodo skeletons in their collection, nobody --

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 Buddha proposed that we love because we are trying to satisfy our base desires. Yet, our passionate cravings are defects, and attachments, even romantic love, are a great source of suffering. Luckily, Buddha discovered the eight-fold path, a sort of program for extinguishing the fires of desire

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 Every one universe produced by random fluctuations has equivalent odds to heaps upon heaps of insta-brains. So by this reasoning, it seems extremely more likely that everything you believe to exist is actually a brief illusion, soon to be extinguished.

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 and the growing wisdom with which we manage it. But this is going to require a change of strategy because our old strategy has been learning from mistakes. We invented fire, screwed up a bunch of times -- invented the fire extinguisher.

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 too terrified to invest it into the productive activities that can generate the incomes from which you can extinguish the mountain of debts and which can produce all those things that humanity desperately needs, like green energy.

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 Unfortunately, the ironic twist here could see the demise of humanity. And so maybe the reason we aren't connecting with life elsewhere, intelligent life elsewhere, is that once it evolves, it extinguishes itself quickly.

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 They'll get used to this, and they, too, might begin to see anything different as dirty, something to be hated, something to be extinguished, like lights to be put out, one by one, until darkness becomes a way of life.

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 a small plane will fist bumps a man i ask the best modern-day explorers take me to the ends of the earth and they said oh we can go further than that three two one a submarine's lights extinguish

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 mesmerizing mistress of perpetual reinvention dyeing her hair again Madge again in her goatee a pointy poor outfit so the Queen with a fire extinguisher between her legs because it was that

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 releasing carbon dioxide at an even greater rate than the prehistoric mega eruptions that extinguished life in the past

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