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• Endurance running was my passion, my ride. So here, I was in the driver's seat, running for two days straight pushing the mental and physical limits striving to be better, to go farther, to give more.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Two, Giving

  Dean Karnazes (2017). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.141, Atlantic Books

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• The mechanical mind has a passion for control - of everything except itself. Beyond the control it has won over the forces of nature it would now win control over the forces of society of stating the problem and producing the solution, with social machinery to correspond.

  L. P. Jacks

  Winning, Mind, Problem

  "Revolt Against Mechanism". Book by L. P. Jacks, 1933.

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• It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one "to have his passion as a profession.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Fortune, Said, Profession

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1988). “In Praise of Philosophy and Other Essays”, p.4, Northwestern University Press

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• Surely to root politics out of art is a highly necessary undertaking: for the freedom of art, like that of science, depends entirely upon its objectivity and non-practical, non-partisan passion.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Art, Objectivity, Roots

  Wyndham Lewis (1929). “The Diabolical Principle and The Dithyrambic Spectator”, p.40, Ardent Media

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• In our time ... a man whose enemies are faceless bureaucrats almost never wins. It is our equivalent to the anger of the gods in ancient times. But those gods you must understand were far more imaginative than our tiny bureaucrats. They spoke from mountaintops not from tiny airless offices. They rode clouds. They were possessed of passion. They had voices and names. Six thousand years of civilization have brought us to this.

  Chaim Potok

  Winning, Men, Years

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• To spread healthy ideas among even the lowest classes of people, to remove men from the influence of prejudice and passion, to make reason the arbiter and supreme guide of public opinion; that is the essential goal of the sciences; that is how science will contribute to the advancement of civilization, and that is what deserves protection of governments who want to insure the stability of their power.

  Georges Cuvier

  Men, Civilization, Class

  "Rapport historique sur les progrès des sciences naturelles depuis 1789, et sur leur état actuel". Book edited by Georges Cuvier (translated), 1810.

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• Hello my Country I once came to tell everyone your story Your passion was my poetry And your past my most potent glory Your promise was my prayer Your hypocrisy my nightmare And your problems fill my present Are we both going somewhere?

  Harry Chapin

  Country, Prayer, Past

  Song: There Only Was One Choice, Album: Dance Band on the Titanic, 1977

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• Anything that can hurt the convictions of another, particularly religious convictions, must be avoided. Freedom of expression must be exercised in a spirit of responsibility. I condemn all manifest provocation that might dangerously fan passions.

  Jacques Chirac

  Religious, Hurt, Responsibility

  "Chirac warns media over cartoons". news.bbc.co.uk. February 8, 2006.

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• The rest of Sitka's homicides are so-called crimes of passion, which is a shorthand way of expressing the mathematical product of alcohol and firearms.

  Michael Chabon

  Alcohol, Way, Crime

  Michael Chabon (2012). “The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• This world has few redeeming features, and one is the capacity for people to love one another with great, enduring passion.

  David Gemmell

  People, World, Love One Another

  "Legend". Book by David Gemmell, "Drenai series", Ch. 12, 1984.

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• A great football team is the right balance and the right mixture of players. Good leaders, good communicators and good technicians. You need people that are strategically astute. People need passion, desire and most importantly, a willingness to keep learning.

  Hope Powell

  Football, Team, Player

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• Happiness is this place that, once you arrive there, you have nothing else to do. You get bored. Passion is this up and down; it's like a rollercoaster, you know, and much more interesting to me.

  Paulo Coelho

  Interesting, Bored, Rollercoaster

  "Book Talk: Paulo Coelho on life, work and 'Adultery'". Interview with Lisa Von Ahn, www.reuters.com. November 13, 2014.

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• I actually write as a passion, as something I actually am more passionate about than acting.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Writing, Acting, Passionate

  Source: collider.com

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• There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call extreme self-seeking is actually self-renunciation. The miser, health addict, glory chaser and their like are not far behind the selfless in the exercise of self-sacrifice.

  Eric Hoffer

  Selfish, Exercise, Sacrifice

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• Even in ordinary times there are very few of us who do not see the problems of life as through a glass, darkly; and when the glass is clouded by the murk of furious popular passion, the vision of the best and the bravest is dimmed.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Glasses, Vision, Ordinary

  Theodore Roosevelt (2004). “Letters and Speeches”

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• Passion is listening.

  Rahul Gandhi

  Listening

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• There is a sort of creative purity in an independent film, in the passion of the director, the passion of the crew. They're not getting a whole lot of money, so you know they are not there because they want to get rich. Instead, they are there because they want to make a movie. In the bigger films, I remember when I used to do those, it's just a job for a lot of people, so there is less of an intense energy devoted to the whole project.

  Amy Irving

  Jobs, Independent, People

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• No move towards the extinction of the passion between the sexes has taken place in the five or six thousand years that the world has existed.

  Thomas Malthus

  Sex, Moving, Taken

  Thomas Malthus (2015). “An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated”, p.95, eKitap Projesi

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• The monk, the inquisitor, and the Jesuit were lords of Spain,- sovereigns of her sovereign, for they had formed the dark and narrow mind of that tyrannical recluse. They had formed the minds of her people, quenched in blood every spark of rising heresy, and given over a noble nation to a bigotry blind and inexorable as the doom of fate. Linked with pride, ambition, avarice, every passion of a rich, strong nature, potent for good and ill, it made the Spaniard of that day a scourge as dire as ever fell on man.

  Francis Parkman

  Strong, Ambition, Fate

  Francis Parkman (1927). “The Works of Francis Parkman”

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• The sum of the crowd's IQ was far below that of its most modest single member. Mobs have passions, not brains.

  Dan Simmons

  Brain, Crowds, Members

  Dan Simmons (2011). “The Fall of Hyperion”, p.316, Spectra

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• I don't even look at resumes anymore. I think they're misguided. I talk to them, ask them where they've been, "What's your favorite experience in a restaurant?" Where do they like to eat? Blah blah blah. All that stuff, but I can only really describe my journey with another person if I can connect with them and their passion. Otherwise, I don't care where they've worked. It doesn't matter to me. Really I have to feel it, and then I can teach them anything.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  Journey, Thinking, Care

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• So powerful is the charm of words, which for us reduces to manageable entities all the passions that would otherwise madden and destroy us.

  Gene Wolfe

  Powerful, Charm, Entity

  Gene Wolfe (1994). “Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.151, Macmillan

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• Connect with all the passions people have - for themselves, their families, their communities and wider world - and they will follow you to the ends of the earth, buy your products and services with pride, and may even be willing to work for you for next to nothing.

  Patrick Dixon

  Pride, People, Community

  "Building a Better Business". Book by Patrick Dixon, 2005.

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• You cannot have strong leadership without passion.

  Patrick Dixon

  Strong

  Patrick Dixon (2005). “Building a Better Business: The Key to Future Marketing, Management and Motivation”, p.59, Profile Books

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• We are not born of the passions of war or of the fervours of revolution. And we grew quietly into the realization that, set as we are in a great wide land, with all our differences, there are certain traditions and ideals which we had in common, and which could best be preserved in a distinct society of our own.

  Vincent Massey

  War, Land, Differences

  Address to the Canadian Club of Vancouver, October 14, 1952.

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