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• Beneath every no lays a passion for yes that had never been broken.

  Wallace Stevens

  Acceptance, Broken, Lays

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.331, Vintage

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• In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.

  Ai Weiwei

  Independent, Rights, Imagination

  "Ai Weiwei: 'China's art world does not exist'". www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2012.

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• The explosion of museum exhibitions is only a mirror image of what has happened to fashion itself this millennium. With the force of technology, instant images and global participation, fashion has developed from being a passion for a few to a fascination - and an entertainment - for everybody.

  Alexander McQueen

  Fashion, Technology, Mirrors

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• As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Real, Deceit, Assuming

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• I have a passion for the name of "Mary," For once it was a magic sound to me, And still it half calls up the realms of fairy, Where I beheld what never was to be.

  Lord Byron

  Names, Magic, Sound

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.126, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Le raison avant la passion - Reason over passion.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Wisdom, Reason

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• Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all... Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot--or if you do not know how to improve on things--then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.

  Bernard Baruch

  Thinking, Knowing, Discipline

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• Every Christian has the power to heal infirmities-not of others, but his own, and not of the body, but of the soul-that is, sins and sinful habits-and to cast out devils, rejecting evil thoughts sown by them, and extinguishing the excitement of passions enflamed by them.

  Theophan the Recluse

  Christian, Humility, Evil

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• An accomplished coquette excites the passions of others, in proportion as she feels none herself.

  William Hazlitt

  Coquette, Coquetry, Proportion

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• The only way forward is in the direction of a common passion, for nothing in the universe can ultimately resist the cumulative ardor of the collective soul.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Way Forward, Soul, Common

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• Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Cities, Vices

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• Motivation is in the world around us. We have an infinite amount of material at our disposal, in the lives of those we meet, in what we see and feel, in what we discuss and from the passion of every woman.

  Pablo Picasso

  Motivation, World, Infinite

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• The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.

  Alexander Pope

  Differences, Giving, Fancy

  Alexander Pope (1846). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles to H. St. John (Lord Bolingbroke). To which are Added, The Universal Prayer, An Essay on the Knowledge and Character of Men, and Other Pieces, with Notes”, p.61

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• O May, sweet-voice one, going thus before, Forever June may pour her warm red wine Of life and passions,--sweeter days are thine!

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Sweet, Wine, Voice

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• Music falls on the silence like a sense / A passion that we feel, not understand.

  Wallace Stevens

  Fall, Silence, Feels

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.287, Vintage

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• The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.

  Bernard Berenson

  Stress, Healing, Artist

  Bernard Berenson (1968). “The Florentine painters. The Central Italian painters”

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• Hair is associated with sexual power. With passion. The woman's sexual passion needs to be minimized, so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly on such passion

  John Berger

  Hair, Needs, May

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• Expression is not a matter of passion mirrored on the human face or revealed by a violent gesture. When I paint a picture, its every detail is expressive.

  Henri Matisse

  Expression, Faces, Details

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• The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that goal the artist has set for himself.

  Odilon Redon

  Artist, Goal, Tenacity

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• Writing music is my one and only passion and joy.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Music, Writing, History

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• Most of the world is like a mental hospital. Some persons are sick with jealousy, others with anger, hatred, passion. They are victims of their habits and emotions. But you can make your home a place of peace.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Home, Health, Sick

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• Your passion must be tempered with patience. Maybe long-suffering patience would be a better word.

  Jack White

  Patience, Long, Suffering

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• Many days you will want to give up because of rejections and failures. Passion to be an artist will help you prevail where others fail.

  Jack White

  Giving Up, Artist, Rejection

  Jack White (2013). “Messages of Effusion: Challenging Answers for Perplexing Career Situations Artists Encounter”, p.103, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I believe God has instilled in us a craving, a deep desire to run with Him on a fantastic adventure, yet many of us crawl along in life without even a glimpse of our hidden passion. There has to be a reason for living. There must be a Camelot, a hidden Utopia where we can rest from our personal campaigns. Fantasy opens our eyes to a better place, a shining city we do not yet know. And these stories provide a mental bridge to that city as we pursue horizons we could never distinguish with our physical eyes.

  Bryan Davis

  Running, Believe, Eye

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• When the printing press was invented, it was inspired by the desire to make the Bible accessible to everyone. Today, people of passion who want to share their faith and provide quality entertainment for families are working in one of the most powerful media of our time--the interactive video game.

  Jay Moore

  Bible, Powerful, Media

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