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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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• I don't want to write without a sense of drama, without passion, or without both eyes open to the world around me.

  Gloria Naylor

  Drama, Writing, Eye

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• Nobody is quite so blase and sophisticated as a boy of nineteen who is just recovering from a baby grand passion

  Helen Rowland

  Baby, Boys, Nineteen

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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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• It is essential..that you should form and adopt certain rules or principles, for the government of your own conduct and temper. Unless you have such rules and principles, there will be numberless occasions on which you will have no guide for your government but your passions..It is in the Bible, you must learn them, and from the Bible how to practice them.

  John Quincy Adams

  Bible, Practice, Government

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

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Music, Writing, History

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• I've always approached acting from a passion point of view. It's what I love to do. The fact that we get paid is just a bonus.

  Katheryn Winnick

  Views, Acting, Facts

  "VIKINGS: Katheryn Winnick Talks Lagertha, Collaborative Process, and Season 3". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 23, 2015.

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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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• 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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• Historically in restaurants, the service staff is awarded significantly higher wages than cooks and other staff who prepare the food on which a restaurant's reputation is based. The gap in pay is so great that it is becoming increasingly difficult for young cooks to pursue their passion at the rate of pay restaurants are able to afford.

  Thomas Keller

  Cooking, Gaps, Able

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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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• 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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• 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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• The passion for truth is silenced by answers which have the weight of undisputed authority.

  Paul Tillich

  Truth, Answers, Weight

  Paul Tillich (2005). “The New Being”, p.65, U of Nebraska Press

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

  Mary Karr

  Love, Dream, Witty

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• Your rules should arise out of your passions and your experience with what works for you.

  Richard Schmid

  Arise, Should

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• Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.

  Matthew Arnold

  Light, Culture, Sweetness

  1873 Literature and Dogma, preface.

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• Passions change, politics are immutable.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Politics

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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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• There is no power like oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears, Cicero by . . . swaying their passions. The influence of the one perished; that of the other continues to this day.

  Henry Clay

  Fear, Men, Oratory

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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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• If you can create a career built on passion, your chances for success, fulfillment, and longevity are far greater than if you take any old job simply for the paycheck.

  Katherine Schwarzenegger

  Motivational, Jobs, Old Job

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• The actor must be full of passion. If he's too cool he's better off as the manager of a company, not someone who appears on the stage.

  Stella Adler

  Actors, Stage, Company

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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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