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"Human vanity is so constituted that it stiffens before difficulties. The more an object conceals itself from our eyes, the greater the effort we make to seize it, because it pricks our pride, it excites our curiosity and it appears interesting. In fighting for his God everyone, in fact, fights only for the interest of his own vanity, which, of all the passions produced bye the mal-organization of society, is the quickest to take offense, and the most capable of committing the greatest follies."

Eye Passion Atheist
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Peter Drucker Management Consultant, Author
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"Any time I have seen someone accomplishing something magnificent, they have been a monomaniac with a mission. A single-minded individual with a passion."

Passion Individual Missions
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Plutarch Philosopher, Historian
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"There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice."

Character Passion Power
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Paul Simon Musician, Songwriter
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"I know a man He came from my home town He wore his passion for his woman Like a thorny crown He said "Dolores I live in fear My love for you's so overpowering I'm afraid that I will disappear"

Men Home Passion
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"I'm not an academic, but I'm someone who has a great passion for science and wants to convey the idea that science is for everyone."

Want Ideas Passion
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Barbara Kingsolver Author, Biologist
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"Pay attention to your passions. They are the key to starting and finishing the book you are meant to write. I don't believe in talent. I believe in passion."

Believe Book Passion
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Dan Hill Singer, Songwriter
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"Sometimes when we touch..The honesty's too much, and I have to close my eyes and hide. I want to hold you till I die, 'til we both break down and cry, I want to hold you till this fear in me subsides."

Eye Passion Honesty
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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
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"It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us. And, when they do, they will as naturally seek the gratification of their ruling passion, as others have so done before them."

Passion Spring Ambition
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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
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"I could not sleep when I got on the hunt for an idea, until I had caught it. This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck with me."

Ideas Passion Sleep
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Edgar Allan Poe Poet, Writer
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"Yet we met; and fate bound us together at the alter,and I never spoke of passion nor thought of love. She, however shunned society, and, attaching herself to me alone rendered me happy. It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream."

Dream Passion Fate
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Edgar Allan Poe Poet, Writer
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"The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose."

Heart Passion Satisfaction
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Edward Young Poet, Playwright
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"Not all the pride of beauty; Those eyes, that tell us what the sun is made of; Those lips, whose touch is to be bought with life; Those hills of driven snow, which seen are felt: All these possessed are nought, but as they are The proof, the substance of an inward passion, And the rich plunder of a taken heart."

Eye Passion Taken
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Edward Young Poet, Playwright
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"Horace appears in good humor while he censures, and therefore his censure has the more weight, as supposed to proceed from judgment and not from passion."

Passion Weight Judgment
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Elie Wiesel Writer, Holocaust Survivor
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"I read the text; and then I come to the Shirat ha-Yam, to the Song of the Sea [Exodus 15], to the poetry. Who could have written such a poem except someone who went through it? It is so full of life, so full of truth, of passion, of concern. And the thousands and thousands of commentaries in the Talmudic tradition that have been written on it. It had to have happened. But even if not, I would attribute the same beauty to the text as I do now."

Song Passion Yams
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"If your home is a ministry, shouldn't that ministry become a passion? Shouldn't your feelings and emotions be involved when it comes to the people and place you love? And shouldn't your work be done passionately? Your labors should be labors of love!"

People Home Passion
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Emma Goldman Anarchist, Political Activist, Writer
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"You have opened up the prison gates of my womanhood. And all the passion that was unsatisfied in for me so many years, leaped into a wild reckless storm boundless as the sea."

Love Passion Crush
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