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• We take, and must continue to take, morally hazardous actions to preserve our civilization. We must exercise our power. But we ought neither to believe that a nation is capable of perfect disinterestedness in its exercise, nor become complacent about a particular degree of interest and passion which corrupt the justice by which the exercise of power is legitimatized.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Believe, Exercise, Civilization

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2010). “The Irony of American History”, p.5, University of Chicago Press

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• Fortunes are made, if I the facts may state--
  Though poor myself, I know the fortunate:
  First, there's a knowledge of the way from whence
  Good fortune comes--and this is sterling sense:
  Then perseverance, never to decline
  The chase of riches till the prey is thine;
  And firmness never to be drawn away
  By any passion from that noble prey--
  By love, ambition, study, travel, fame,
  Or the vain hope that lives upon a name.

  George Crabbe

  Perseverance, Ambition, Names

  George Crabbe (1839). “The Poetical Works of Crabbe, Heber, and Pollok: Complete in One Volume”, p.364

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• It is better to be passionate than to be tolerant at the expense of one's soul.

  Freya Stark

  Soul, Passionate, Expenses

  Freya Stark (1954). “Ionia: A Quest”, London : J. Murray

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• Exhaust the little moment / Soon it dies.

  Gwendolyn Brooks

  Live In The Moment, Littles, Moments

  Gwendolyn Brooks (1971). “The world of Gwendolyn Brooks”, Harpercollins

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• love of truth, ordinary common truth recognizable to everyone, is the ruling passion of the novel.

  Mary McCarthy

  Ordinary, Common, Ruling

  Mary McCarthy (2002). “A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays”, New York Review of Books

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• The passion for fact in a raw state is a peculiarity of the novelist.

  Mary McCarthy

  Novelists, Facts, States

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The Humanist in the Bathtub”

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• Free thought means fearless thought. It is not deterred by legal penalties, nor by spiritual consequences. Dissent from the Bible does not alarm the true investigator, who takes truth for authority not authority for truth. The thinker who is really free, is independent; he is under no dread; he yields to no menace; he is not dismayed by law, nor custom, nor pulpits, nor society-whose opinion appals so many. He who has the manly passion of free thought, has no fear of anything, save the fear of error.

  George Holyoake

  Spiritual, Mean, Independent

  George Jacob Holyoake (1896). “English Secularism: A Confession of Belief”, p.18, Library of Alexandria

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• First, we believe that God is a being with a body in form like man's; that he possesses body, parts and passions; that in a word, God is an exalted, perfected man. Secondly, we believe in a plurality of Gods. Third, we believe that somewhere and some time in the ages to come, through development, through enlargement, through purification until perfection is attained, man at last may become like God - a God.

  B. H. Roberts

  Believe, Men, Perfection

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• We can know nothing of humankind without knowing something of ourselves. Self-knowledge is the property of those people whose passions have their full play, but who ponder over their results.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Self, Play, Knowing

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• ... peace is a militant thing ... any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war. No one can be a pacifist without being ready to fight for peace and die for peace.

  Mary Heaton Vorse

  Peace, War, Fighting

  Mary Heaton Vorse, Dee Garrison (1985). “Rebel pen: the writings of Mary Heaton Vorse”, Monthly Review Pr

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• TABLE D'HOTE, n. A caterer's thrifty concession to the universal passion for irresponsibility.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Food, Cooking, Tables

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.223, University of Georgia Press

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• I obviously love to sing, it's my passion, as is being a mom. Those are the two things that pretty much consume my every day and so I want to keep doing that as long as I can.

  Martina McBride

  Mom, Two, Long

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• It's not always expected of filmmakers to do stereotyped stories. But one has to be willing to travel to festivals and hook up with people, engage people intellectually about your passion and the kinds of films that interest you, and sooner or later you find people that have the same affinity that you have.

  Haile Gerima

  People, Hook, Stories

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• To do panels where you get to interact with your fans, in a really intimate, awesome way, and to let them ask all of the questions, is fun to me and it shows them that you care about their opinions, their thoughts, and their passion for your project.

  Zachary Levi

  Fun, Fans, Care

  "Zachary Levi Talks Heroes Reborn, the Tangled Tv Series, the Nerd Machine, Comic-con & More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 3, 2015.

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• How much do people really want to learn? I mean, some people get into a groove and they stay with it indefinitely. And what starts off as a great moment of explosive passion can end up as cabaret 25, 30 years later. It just depends on whether you go and find the right habitat to extend yourself.

  Robert Plant

  Mean, Years, People

  "The Survivors: Robert Plant". Interview with Chris Heath, www.gq.com. November 7, 2011.

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• I do a lot of running, and I do it every day. I run on a track, I run hills and I work the stair-stepper extremely hard. I do some type of cardio every day. In addition, I have a passion for golf, and that helps me stay fit, too.

  Jerry Rice

  Running, Golf, Track

  Source: www.muscleandfitness.com

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• I have always loved books, and as a mother, I wanted to share my passion for reading with my children.

  Aerin Lauder

  Mother, Children, Book

  Interview with Michael Kors, aspenpeak-magazine.com. May 22, 2013.

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• Writing and giving voice to what I am feeling makes me happy. And supporting people in finding their voice, passion, outrage and resistance. There is nothing better than that.

  Eve Ensler

  Writing, Voice, People

  Interview with Kevin Powell, bknation.org. May 1, 2014.

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• The passions should be purged; all may become innocent if they are well directed and moderated. Even hatred maybe a commendable feeling when it is caused by a lively love of good. Whatever makes the passions pure, makes them stronger, more durable, and more enjoyable.

  Joseph Joubert

  Hatred, Feelings, Stronger

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• We use up in the passions the stuff that was given us for happiness.

  Joseph Joubert

  Use, Stuff, Given

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.58

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• One means very effectual for the preservation of health is a quiet and cheerful mind, not afflicted with violent passions or distracted with immoderate cares.

  John Ray

  Health, Mean, Mind

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• When passion is mutual, there is always the danger of the fire burning to ashes.

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Fire, Ashes, Burning

  Beryl Bainbridge (2010). “Master Georgie”, p.81, Hachette UK

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• Only the highest souls realize and accept that he who sins is far more to be pitied, aye, and loved, if love is what the highest human passion should be, than is the one against whom the sinner has sinned.

  Louise Jordan Miln

  Love Is, Soul, Realizing

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• Art belongs to all times and to all countries; its special benefit is precisely to be still living when everything else seems dying; that is why Providence shields it from too personal or too general passions, and grants it a patient and persevering organization, durable sensibility, and the contemplative sense in which lies invincible faith.

  George Sand

  Country, Art, Lying

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• We must have a passion in life.

  George Sand

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.108, Cosimo, Inc.

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