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• Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.

  Blaise Pascal

  Love, Inspirational, Mean

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• The law is reason, free from passion.

  Aristotle

  Philosophical, Law, Blonde

  "Politics". Book by Aristotle. Book III, 1287a.32,

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• Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

  Johnny Carson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

  James Joyce

  Inspirational, Work, Yesterday

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• Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Love, Happiness, Laughter

  "Kris Kristofferson: What I've Learned". Interview with Scott Carrier, www.esquire.com. May 1999.

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• All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

  John Locke

  War, Men, Errors

  An Essay Concerning Human Understanding bk. 4, ch. 20, sec. 17 (1690)

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• Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason.

  William Penn

  Men, Reason, Riot

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.146

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• It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

  Pablo Picasso

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Peace

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• So try to pursue the very things that you are passionate about- that is the difference between good and great!

  Shawn Doyle

  Differences, Trying, Pursue

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• Search then the ruling passion: This clue, once found, unravels all the rest.

  Alexander Pope

  Clue, Found, Ruling

  1734 Epistles to Several Persons,'To Lord Cobham', l.174-8.

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• Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Powerful, Men, Use

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• There's sure no passion in the human soul, But finds its food in music.

  George Lillo

  Soul, Humans, Human Soul

  'The Fatal Curiosity' (1736) act 1, sc. 2

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• I've got a passion for what I'm doing and I feel privileged all the time.

  Nitin Sawhney

  Time Passes, Feels, Privileged

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• Anyone can dabble, but once you've made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it's very hard for people to stop you.

  Bill Cosby

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

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• The proper artistic response to digital technology is to
  embrace it as a new window on everything thats eternally
  human, and to use it with passion, wisdom, fearlessness and joy

  Ralph Lombreglia

  Technology, Joy, Use

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• One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Leadership

  Address to American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf, Philadelphia, Pa., 8 July 1896

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• Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Life, Boredom

  "Beyond Good and Evil". Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, Chapter VII: Our Virtues, Aphorism 227, 1886.

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• Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It's our goal in life to find it and keep it.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Motivational, Inspiring, Graduation

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• Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

  Henry Miller

  Music, Beauty, Beautiful

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• When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Fighting, Men, Religion

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.53, Courier Corporation

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• Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Friendship, Sarcastic

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

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• It was becoming clearer and clearer that if I wanted to come to the end of my life and not say, “I’ve wasted it!” then I would need to press all the way in, and all the way up, to the ultimate purpose of God and join him in it. If my life was to have a single, all-satisfying, unifying passion, it would have to be God’s passion.

  John Piper

  Christian, Inspiration, Needs

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• But whatever you do, find the God-centered, Christ-exalting, Bible-saturated passion of your life, and find your way to say it and live for it and die for it. And you will make a difference that lasts. You will not waste your life.

  John Piper

  Christian, Inspiration, Differences

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• No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  'On the Sublime and Beautiful' (1757) pt. 2, sect. 2

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• He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wisdom, Courage, Intelligence

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby].”, p.304

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