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Erich Fromm Psychologist, Philosopher
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"I only wish to be the fountain of love from which you drink, every drop promising eternal passion."

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David Hume Philosopher, Historian
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"Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons."

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Denis Diderot Philosopher, Writer
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"If your little savage were left to himself and be allowed to retain all his ignorance, he would in time join the infant's reasoning to the grown man's passion, he would strangle his father and sleep with his mother."

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Charles Darwin Naturalist, Geologist
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"The young blush much more freely than the old but not during infancy, which is remarkable, as we know that infants at a very early age redden from passion."

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Bertrand Russell Philosopher, Mathematician
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"Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear of its non-fulfillment. Every dominant fear generates a nightmare, sometimes in form of explicit and conscious fanaticism, sometimes in paralyzing timidity, sometimes in an unconscious or subconscious terror which finds expression only in dreams. The man who wishes to preserve sanity in a dangerous world should summon in his own mind a parliament of fears, in which each in turn is voted absurd by all the others."

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Bill Murray Actor, Comedian
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"Mrs. O'Hair died horribly, a victim of the world she helped to shape. Without the Deity she fought so hard against, there is no right and wrong, increasingly people are ruled by their passions and humanity is a tragedy waiting to happen."

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Bob Dylan Singer-songwriter
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"Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise."

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"There is nothing wrong with you just because you haven't yet met people who share your interests or outlook on life. Unless you are doing something unhealthy or destructive, take pride in your beliefs, passions, and values. Know that you will eventually meet people who will appreciate you for being you."

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Wayne Dyer Author, Motivational Speaker
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"Feelings of passion, pure bliss, reverence, optimism, trust and illumination indicate that your desire to manifest success and abundance has an extremely strong pulling power from the universal source to you."

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William James Philosopher, Psychologist
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"Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions. Intellect, will, taste, and passion co-operate just as they do in practical affairs; and lucky it is if the passion be not something as petty as a love of personal conquest over the philosopher across the way."

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"The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion; the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, An appetite; a feeling and a love that had no need of a remoter charm by thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye."

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Saint Augustine Theologian, Philosopher
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"The Gods occupy the loftiest regions, men the lowest, the demons the middle region...They have immortality of body, but passions of the mind in common with men."

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Rabindranath Tagore Poet, Playwright, Novelist
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"When the heat and motion of blind impulses and passions distract it on all sides, we can neither give nor receive anything truly. But when we find our centre in our soul by the power of self-restraint, by the force that harmonizes all warring element"

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