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(noun) A physical injury caused by heat, cold, electricity, radiation or caustic chemicals. Example: "She had second-degree burns from falling in the bonfire."

16 QUOTES
"Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust."
— Virginia Woolf
"It is better to burn than to disappear."
— Albert Camus
"If a man talks bad about all women, it usually means he was burned by one woman."
— Coco Chanel
"Laughing is the best calorie burner."
— Audrey Hepburn
"To love is to burn, to be on fire."
— Jane Austen
"To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it."
— Mother Teresa
"The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long."
— Lao Tzu
"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned."
— Gautama Buddha
"No opinion is worth burning your neighbor for."
— Voltaire
"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."
— Maya Angelou
"When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace."
— George Bernard Shaw
"Don’t let bridges you cross be bridges you burn."
— J. Cole
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