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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"Don't put blankets over the drum! Open completely. Let your spirit ear listen to the green dome's passionate murmur."

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Kurt Cobain Musician, Singer-Songwriter
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"I mean I like to be passionate and sincere but I also like to have fun and act like a dork."

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Antonin Artaud Playwright, Actor, Theorist
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"The Theatre of Cruelty has been created in order to restore to the theatre a passionate and convulsive conception of life, and it is in this sense of violent rigour and extreme condensation of scenic elements that the cruelty on which it is based must be understood. This cruelty, which will be bloody when necessary but not systematically so, can thus be identified with a kind of severe moral purity which is not afraid to pay life the price it must be paid."

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Viola Davis Actress, Producer
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"When you're really passionate, you're going to grab hold of every rope you see, and wrap them around your arms and legs to claw your way out. And that's the way I've felt in my life."

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Steve Jobs Entrepreneur
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"The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it."

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D. H. Lawrence Novelist, Poet
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"This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten."

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
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"If you have not learned to be a passionate lover, do not count your life as lived. On the day of reckoning, it will not be counted."

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"It's all about who you surround yourself with. You have to be comfortable with yourself and have friends who accept you for who you are. Also, do something that you're passionate about. When you find out what you're good at and you do it, that gives you confidence."

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Albert Einstein Physicist
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"I always have a high regard for the individual and have an insuperable distaste for violence and clubmanship. All these motives made me into a passionate pacifist and anti-militarist. I am against any nationalism, even in the guise of mere patriotism. Privileges based on position and property have always seemed to me unjust and pernicious, as did any exaggerated personality cult."

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