"There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed."
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"There is no fire like passion: there is no evil and hatred."
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"I hope that young girls will have the dream and will have experiences. And it might not be in swimming. It might be in something else. But I found a passion, and I love it. It's something I love and something I enjoy. It's something I'm good at. And it's what I have been able to give 100 percent to."
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"Work is necessary; it can be nothing less than a passion; a person is happy in accomplishment."
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"Every time I tried to express my most heartfelt desires to be morally good I met with contempt and ridicule; and as soon as I would give in to vile passions I was praised and encouraged. Ambition, love of power, self-interest, lechery, pride, anger, vengeance-all of it was highly esteemed."
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"Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live."
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"Stain not the glory of your worthy ancestors, but like them resolve never to part with your birthright; be wise in your deliberations, and determined in your exertions for the preservation of your liberties. Fllow not the dictates of passion, but enlist yourselves under the sacred banner of reason; use every method in your power to secure your rights."
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"What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion."
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"A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows; One should our interests and our passions be, My friend must hate the man that injures me."
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"The question is not how to survive, but how to thrive with passion, compassion, humor and style."
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"You have to have a passion for your work. How can we expect people to be passionate if you, as their coach, does not have a passion? Coaching has to be something that gives you passion and energy."
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"And to my lips' Bright crimson rim The passion slips, And down my slim White body drips The shining hymn."
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"Our passion for learning ... is our tool for survival."
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"Sadly, children's passion for thinking often ends when they encounter a world that seeks to educate them for conformity and obedience only."
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"The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian"
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"Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness."
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"The greatest, like Rembrandt, paint a gallant, a hag, and a carcass with equal passion and rapture; they love the truth as it is. They do not admit that anything can be ugly or evil; its existence justifies itself. This is because they know themselves to be part of an harmonious unity; to disdain any item of it would be to blaspheme the whole. The Thelemite is able to revel in any experience soever; in each he recognizes the tokens of ultimate Truth. It is surely obvious, even intellectually, that all phenomena are interdependent, and therefore involve each other."
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"The fiery moments of passionate experience are the moments of wholeness and totality of the personality."
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"Those of us who have transcended mythical belief systems know without any doubt that there is no God up in the sky. But when we awaken to what I call the evolutionary impulse - the mysterious passion to evolve, to become, to develop on every level-we rediscover who God is."
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"Music imitates (represents) the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites."
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