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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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• Mama had an appreciation of the language. She taught me a love of words, of how they should be used and how they can fill a creative soul with a passion and lead to a life's work.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Appreciation, Creative, Soul

  Lewis Grizzard (1991). “Don't Forget to Call Your Mama--: I Wish I Could Call Mine”

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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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• You can quickly go from having passion and love to passion and hate when an act of betrayal happens.

  Robert Sternberg

  Betrayal, Hate, And Love

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• The passion, the competitiveness, the swinging for the fences, it adds up.

  Donny Deutsch

  Winning, Swinging For The Fences, Add

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• Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous.

  Booth Tarkington

  Fate, Destiny, Constant

  Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.284, Booklassic

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• I've always felt that my generation was the last group to have passion about the game. Some of today's guys don't seem to share that interest and it shows.

  Tim Henman

  Games, Guy, Groups

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• The Gaelic League is founded not upon hatred of England, but upon love of Ireland. Hatred is a negative passion; it is powerful - a very powerful destroyer; but it is useless for building up. Love, on the other hand, is like faith; it can move mountains, and faith, we have mountains to move.

  Douglas Hyde

  Powerful, Moving, Hands

  Douglas Hyde (1986). “Language, lore, and lyrics: essays and lectures”, Irish Academic Pr

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• In love, there's sentiment and passion; I know only sentiment through myself, passion through others. I hear certain voices I know say: sentiment=love of the intellect; I can answer: passion=the love of the body.

  Berthe Morisot

  Voice, Answers, Body

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• No one can give you the strength of character necessary... Only you can find that passion within that burns with an integrity that will not settle for anything less than the Truth.

  Adyashanti

  Integrity, Character, Giving

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• [It is appropriate that the Body and Blood of Christ be truly present in this Sacrament] because of the perfection of the New Covenant. The sacrifices of the Old Covenant contained the true sacrifice of Christ's Passion only in symbol....Therefore it was necessary that the sacrifice of the New Covenant, instituted by Christ, have something more, namely, that it contain Christ Himself who has suffered and contain Him not only in symbol but in reality.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Sacrifice, Reality, Blood

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• The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and beget.

  William Osler

  Sex, Men, Two

  'Science and Immortality' (1904) ch. 2

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• Love is the only passion which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

  Mary Karr

  Love, Dream, Witty

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• . . . first in myth, later in reality, passion and violence watered my root soil.

  Roy Wilkins

  Reality, Roots, Firsts

  Roy Wilkins, Tom Mathews (1982). “Standing Fast: The Autobiography of Roy Wilkins”, Viking Adult

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• Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.

  Ruth Park

  Writing, Firefighter, Wanted

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  The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.

  Pythagoras

  Animal, Men, Soul

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• My passion has been to build an enduring company where people were motivated to make great products. Everything else was secondary. Sure, it was great to make a profit, because that was what allowed you to make great products. But the products, not the profits were the motivation.

  Steve Jobs

  Motivation, People, Motivated

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• Let this sad tale of death never be told without a tear: let every parent tell the shameful story to his listening children, till tears of pity glisten in their eyes, or boiling passion shakes their tender frames.

  John Hancock

  Children, Eye, Parent

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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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• Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it,
  Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee,
  Proud of my night since thou with moons dost slake it,
  Not to partake thy passion, my humility.

  Emily Dickinson

  Pain, Heart, Humility

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.2018, Delphi Classics

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• Mere communion with nature, mere contact with the free air, exercise a soothing yet comforting and strengthening influence on the wearied mind, calm the storm of passion, and soften the heart when shaken by sorrow to its inmost depths.

  Alexander von Humboldt

  Nature, Heart, Exercise

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• And hence one master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.

  Alexander Pope

  Masters, Breasts, Serpent

  Alexander Pope (1748). “An essay on man. Enlarged and improved by the author. With the commentary and notes of mr. Warburton”, p.59

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• Well, what is a relationship? It's about two people having tremendous weaknesses and vulnerabilities, like we all do, and one person being able to strengthen the other in their areas of vulnerability, and vice versa. You need each other. You complete each other, passion and romance aside.

  Jane Fonda

  Marriage, Two, People

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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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• My mom was a musician, and my dad had this passion for music. That's kind of how a lot of their relationship was built. When I came around, I was constantly exposed to music.

  Eldar Djangirov

  Mom, Dad, Musician

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