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• Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Life, Latin, Mean

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• We are limited only by our lack of creativity. Our buildings should symbolize the exuberance of a free nation that encourages individual effort and creativity.

  Douglas Cardinal

  Creativity, Individual Effort, Building

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• A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Imagination, Politics, Opponents

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and Great Speeches: Coningsby, v. 2. Selected speeches”

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• Our minds must meditate on some object. According to what he thinks, a man can create an atmosphere of radiance, exuberance, buoyancy; and this brings joy. Or he can carry gloom with him. It is a matter of the habit of thought. We must build up our own life by our thoughts. There are many ways by which we can do this. Art, music, even manual work, all can bring ripening to the soul.

  Swami Paramananda

  Art, Men, Thinking

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• I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology.

  Robert Wyatt

  Sports, Fashion, Thinking

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• I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

  Elia Kazan

  Voice, Secret, Hearing

  Elia Kazan (2011). “Elia Kazan: A Life”, p.278, Knopf

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• Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.

  Yoko Ono

  Summer, Time, Spring

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• You can have anything you want

  Jenifer Lewis

  Confidence, Fashion, Singleness Of Purpose

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• Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

  William Blake

  Lust, Desire, Goats

  "The Voice of the Devil". "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell". Book by William Blake, www.bartleby.com. 1793.

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• You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Positive, Confidence

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• That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things, lacking in the artistic but powerful to effect great ends; that restless, nervous energy; that dominant individualism, working for good and evil, and withal that buoyancy and exuberance which comes with freedom - these are the traits of the frontier.

  Frederick Jackson Turner

  Powerful, Evil, Mind

  Frederick Jackson Turner (2012). “The Frontier in American History”, p.37, Courier Corporation

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• In the '90s it was irrational exuberance. Now it may be irrational doom and gloom.

  Robert Reich

  Doom And Gloom, May, Irrational

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• Caution, not exuberance, should be our fiscal motto.

  John Chafee

  Motto, Should, Caution

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• But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?

  Alan Greenspan

  Past, Japan, Unexpected

  Alan Greenspan (2008). “The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World”, p.177, Penguin

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• Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation

  Robert Frost

  Art, Vocabulary, Discipline

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• Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you're going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power.

  Robert Frost

  Vocabulary, Discipline, Delight

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• Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets. We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past. But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade?

  Alan Greenspan

  Past, Japan, Risk

  Alan Greenspan's speech at the Annual Dinner and Francis Boyer Lecture of The American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C., www.federalreserve.gov. December 5, 1996.

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• I discovered that our clan included loads of cousins and uncles and aunts and animals of every shape. I was taught that chaos and competition were family values. And I learned that we all loved the sea. Somehow, the sea was about us-our past, our exuberance, our frailty, our longing.

  Timothy Shriver

  Cousin, Uncles, Past

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• Looking at suicide—the sheer numbers, the pain leading up to it, and the suffering left behind—is harrowing. For every moment of exuberance in the science, or in the success of governments, there is a matching and terrible reality of the deaths themselves: the young deaths, the violent deaths, the unnecessary deaths

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicide, Pain, Reality

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2011). “Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide”, p.310, Vintage

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• In New York the acoustics are good for laughter, for life is all external, all action, no thought, no meditation, no dreaming, no reflection, only the exuberance of action.

  Anais Nin

  Dream, New York, Laughter

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• Flamboyance and fortitude, femme and butch-not poses, not stereotypes, but a dance between two different kinds of women, one beckoning the other into a full blaze of color, the other strengthening the fragility behind the exuberance. We who love this way are poetry and history, action and theory, flesh and spirit.

  Joan Nestle

  Color, Two, Flesh

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• Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive. In the middle category, however - that of the unnecessary but undestructive, that of comfort, luxury, exuberance, etc

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Happiness, Luxury, Justice

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2016). “The Unreal and the Real: The Selected Short Stories of Ursula K. Le Guin”, p.292, Simon and Schuster

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• Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty.

  John Grogan

  Inspirational, Loyalty, Dog

  John Grogan (2010). “Bad Dogs Have More Fun: Selected Writings on Family, Animals, and Life from the Philadelphia Inquirer”, p.83, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It has always seemed to me that a love of natural objects, and the depth, as well as exuberance and refinement of mind, produced by an intelligent delight in scenery, are elements of the first importance in the education of the young.

  Frederick William Faber

  Intelligent, Mind, Depth

  Frederick William Faber (1857). “Sir Lancelot. A poem”, p.5

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• It would be nice if all that exuberance and abundance was connected to a deep ethos of planetary responsibility.

  William McDonough

  Nice, Responsibility, Ethos

  Source: www.triplepundit.com

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