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• Unlike music or poetry or painting, food rouses no response in passionate and emotional youth. Only when the surge of the blood is quieted does gastronomy come into its own with philosophy and theology and the sterner delights of the mind.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Philosophy, Food, Emotional

  Dorothy L Sayers (2009). “The Documents in the Case”, p.39, Hachette UK

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• Are we proud and passionate, malicious and revengeful? Is this to be like-minded with Christ, who was meek and lowly?

  John Tillotson

  Proud, Christ, Meek

  John Tillotson (1820). “Twenty Discourses on the Most Important Subjects: Calculated for Every Class of Readers”, p.70

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• Anger is just a demand for change, a passionate wish for things to be different.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Anger, Wish, Different

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.94, Penguin

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• Want of passion is, I think, a very striking characteristic of Americans, not unrelated to their predilection for violence. For very few people truly have a passionate desire to achieve, and violence serves as a kind of substitute.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Passion, Thinking, People

  Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu Galey (1984). “With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• if you take passionate interest in a subject, it is hard not to believe yourself specially equipped for it.

  Ethel Smyth

  Believe, Talent, Interest

  Ethel Smyth (1922). “Streaks of life”

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• It is no accident that stock exchange floors - in addition to bedroom floors - bring out the noisy blood, the flushed cheek, and the passionate cries of men. Most men are making love when they make 'magical' amounts of money.

  Phyllis Chesler

  Men, Blood, Making Love

  Phyllis Chesler, Emily Jane Goodman (1976). “Women, money & power”, William Morrow & Co

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• You don't choose your themes; they choose you. The meaning of your stories will rise out of your deepest longings, often out of longings so deep that you haven't admitted them even to yourself. Your convictions, your confusions, your most passionate dreams will be there whenever you begin a story, so you might as well learn to tap into them.

  Marion Dane Bauer

  Dream, Confusion, Stories

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• I thought I had finished with romantic adventures, but half-way through life and well past the age for losing one's heart, I was suddenly swept off my feet by a new love, a passionate, tyrannical, all-absorbing emotion: the love of a garden.

  Patience Strong

  Heart, Adventure, Garden

  Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

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• Excellent Sheep is likely to makea lasting mark for three reasons. One, Mr. Deresiewicz spent twenty-four years in the Ivy League, graduating from Columbia and teaching for a decade at Yale.He brings the gory details. Two, the author is a striker, to put it in soccer terms. He's a vivid writer, a literary critic whose headers tend to land in the back corner of the net. Three, his indictment arrives on wheels: He takes aim at just about the entirety of upper-middle-class life in America.Mr. Deresiewicz's book is packed full of what he wants more of in American life: passionate weirdness.

  Dwight Garner

  Soccer, Teaching, Book

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• It's what is strange about doing a job that is also the thing you love, the thing you feel passionate about. People get to the point where they're burned out and disillusioned by the whole thing because when things aren't going well at work it also means they aren't going well in your heart, in your soul. They're all wrapped up together.

  Teddy Thompson

  Jobs, Mean, Heart

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• I am passionate about tea, running, the idea that we are bound only by the limits of our imaginations, and maple syrup.

  Misha Collins

  Running, Ideas, Imagination

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• I never heard the expression, "A strong man," unless somebody was in the gym lifting a heavy barbell. Why is there a difference between being an ambitious, driven woman or passionate woman and a passionate man? That is something that has come up a lot.

  Megan Griffiths

  Strong, Men, Differences

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• I really gave up being passionate about politics 10, 15, 20 years ago, because I think finally that there were forces in the country that are larger than politics itself. And so I find it a fascinating game, this wonderful stuff goes on in terms of watching the game. But If you get to down it, look, I`m going to root for someone, I`ll root at a football game, not for politicians.

  Norman Mailer

  Country, Football, Thinking

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• I like to be around people who are very passionate. People that won't fight but that will be very over-protective and outspoken about their opinion, their point of view, their ideas.

  Zoe Saldana

  Fighting, Views, Ideas

  Source: birthmoviesdeath.com

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• If you're passionate, be passionate enough to fail. Fail small, accept responsibility, repeat. The people who make change are the survivors of serial failure.

  Seth Godin

  Responsibility, People, Survivor

  "Small Business Marketing Resources". Experian Interview, www.experian.com.

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• I think the people who work with me are people who love style themselves. I'm leaving the office and they're still working. They're passionate.

  Ralph Lauren

  Thinking, Office, People

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• You need to be passionate about the creative work that you're doing, but you need to be kind of emotionally separated from how people react to it or how it does. Those things should be secondary, and primary should be your love of the creative act.

  Veronica Roth

  People, Creative, Doe

  Source: www.sun-sentinel.com

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• If you can learn to be incredibly passionate about your work without fighting for it just because it's yours, that's a huge thing.

  Robert Ben Garant

  Fighting, Huge, Ifs

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Aside from eating healthy and taking care of my body, I've always been passionate about skincare. It's an essential part of my daily regimen, which is why I decided to create my own skincare line, DEVONNE by Demi. When my skin is clean, I feel my best!

  Demi Lovato

  Healthy, Skins, Lines

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Religion is passionate, reckless, destructive, idol-smashing. It's a martyr burning at the stake. It's a crown of thorns and a cross.

  Martha Ostenso

  Idols, Religion, Thorns

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• I am, and remain, passionate about news.

  Valerie Trierweiler

  News

  "Valérie Trierweiler: France's femme formidable" by Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2012.

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• I dance because I have to, because I'm so passionate about it.

  Paula Abdul

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• I'm a passionate individual, and sometimes when I have strong feelings about a subject, I feel the need to express myself.

  Megan Fox

  Strong, Feelings, Needs

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• I am genuine, fun and passionate.

  Erin Heatherton

  Fun, Genuine

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• ... the word "theory" ... was originally an Orphic word, which Cornford interprets as "passionate sympathetic contemplation" ... For Pythagoras, the "passionate sympathetic contemplation" was intellectual, and issued in mathematical knowledge ... To those who have reluctantly learnt a little mathematics in school this may seem strange; but to those who have experienced the intoxicating delight of sudden understanding that mathematics gives, from time to time, to those who love it, the Pythagorean view will seem completely natural.

  Bertrand Russell

  School, Views, Giving

  Bertrand Russell (2008). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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