"Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power."
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"The three most harmful negative emotions are anger, guilt, and fear. And anger is number one. It is also the strongest and most dangerous of all passions."
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"Life is full of wonderful passions that come and go over the years, but the only one that will never let you down is reading."
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"A true chocolate lover finds ways to accommodate his passion and make it work with his lifestyle. One key, not just to keeping weight down and staying guilt-free, but also to keeping taste buds sharp (essential for the professionals who evaluate new products as well as judge recipes), Is being discriminating."
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"Love itself is the most elitist of passions. It acquires its stereoscopic substance and perspective only in the context of culture, for it takes up more place in the mind than it does in bed. Outside of that setting it falls flat into one-dimensional fiction."
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"Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not."
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"Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions."
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"We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women have all the qualities - courage, passion, the capacity to love, cunning - whereas all our imagination can do is naively pile up the illusion of courage."
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"Racing is a passion...at this level, a source of immense gratification. So the rest is no problem."
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"I thought, "Why? and how did we evolve with this weak, and useless passion in tact within the deep heart's core?" And the answer as I've formulated it to myself is that empathy is the engine that powers all the best in us."
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"I'd take 12 guys who had a strong passion for the game over 12 guys who don't respect the game."
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"The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents"
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"Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but envy can gain nothing but vexation."
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"Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death."
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"There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live."
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"I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people."
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"Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps."
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"The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman."
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"My love is founded on esteem, the only foundation that can make the passion last."
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"When the past makes you laugh and you can savor the magic that lets you survive your own war, you'll find that that fire is passion and there's a door up ahead - not a wall."
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