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• Passions change, politics are immutable.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Politics

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• It is with passion and dedication that I will be attentive to the needs of women and fight relentlessly for their rights

  Claudia Cardinale

  Fighting, Dedication, Rights

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• To think big is to love the universe, to embrace our passion. To love is to fight for what we love. What a waste not to, when we have only this one life to live.

  Michael Port

  Fighting, Love Is, Thinking

  Michael Port, Mina Samuels (2009). “The Think Big Manifesto: Think You Can't Change Your Life (and the World) Think Again”, p.83, John Wiley & Sons

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• Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don't have questions, you'll never find answers.

  Colleen Hoover

  Love You, Answers, Ifs

  Colleen Hoover (2012). “Slammed”, p.223, Simon and Schuster

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• Love and hate, despite their polar opposites, are both feelings that are induced by passion. I can handle that. It's the indifference I don't know how to process.

  Colleen Hoover

  Hate, Opposites, Feelings

  Colleen Hoover (2013). “This Girl”, p.214, Simon and Schuster

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• The cold passion for truth hunts in no pack.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Truth, Cold, Hunts

  Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (1988). “The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1938-1962”, p.24, Stanford University Press

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• The very beautiful rarely love at all; those precious images are placed above the reach of the passions: Time alone is permitted to efface them.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Beautiful, Alone Time, Me Alone

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.165

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• In the end what will prevail is your passion not your tale, for love is the Holy Grail.

  Tom Robbins

  Love, Holy Grail, Ends

  Tom Robbins (2005). “Villa Incognito”, p.235, Bantam

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• Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highestquality toyourmomentsasthey pass,and simply for those moments'sake.

  Walter Pater

  Art, Giving, Desire

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• Le charme de la nouveaute  , peu a'   peu tombant comme un ve" t ement, laissait voir a'   nu l'e  ternelle monotonie de la passion, qui a toujours les me"  mes formes et le me"  me langage. The charm of novelty, falling little by little like a robe, revealed the eternal monotony of passion, which has always the same forms and the same language.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Fall, Littles, Novelty

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• Pornography reveals that male pleasure is inextricably tied to victimizing, hurting, exploiting; that sexual fun and sexual passion in the privacy of the male imagination are inseparable from the brutality of male history. The private world of sexual dominance that men demand as their right and their freedom is the mirror image of the public world of sadism and atrocity that men consistently and self-righteously deplore. It is in the male experience of pleasure that one finds the meaning of male history.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Hurt, Fun, Men

  Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

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• The great advantage of our system of government over all others, is, that we have a written constitution, defining its limits, and prescribing its authorities; and that, however, for a time, faction may convulse the nation, and passion and party prejudice sway its functionaries, the season of reflection will recur, when calmly retracing their deeds, all aberrations from fundamental principle will be corrected.

  Henry Clay

  Party, Reflection, Government

  Henry Clay (2015). “The Papers of Henry Clay: The Rising Statesman, 1797-1814”, p.537, University Press of Kentucky

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• Get the mind right, the body will follow, you lose some battles in life, but if you always put your heart and passion forward first as your main objective, you will win the war, that’s what gives you the strength to get off the ground… and do it again.

  Greg Plitt

  War, Heart, Winning

  FaceBook post by Greg Plitt from Nov 15, 2014

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• The most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.

  Karl Marx

  Mean, Violent, Interest

  Karl Marx, David McLellan (2000). “Karl Marx: Selected Writings”, p.455, Oxford University Press, USA

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• When passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Littles, Magnificent, Absent

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3797, Delphi Classics

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• Jesus Christ raised women above the condition of mere slaves, mere ministers to the passions of the man, raised them by His sympathy, to be Ministers of God.

  Florence Nightingale

  Jesus, Men, Christ

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2002). “Florence Nightingale's spiritual journey: biblical annotations, sermons and journal notes”, Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr

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• Business could not make dull, nor passion wild; Who saw life steadily, and saw it whole.

  Matthew Arnold

  Dull, Saws, Whole

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• A great tragedy passes from crest to hollow of passion, rises and sinks again, as rhythmically as sea-waves.

  Austin O'Malley

  Sea, Tragedy, Wave

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• Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from.

  Ada Leverson

  Husband, Home, Men

  Ada Leverson (2005). “Love at Second Sight”, p.143, 1st World Publishing

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• Envy and resentment are terribly corrosive passions. To suffer at the sight or even the thought of others' enjoyment of life makes one a committed enemy of human happiness. Such people end up being practically a curse upon the human race. They vandalize life, exerting themselves not in the pursuit of gain or pleasure, but to hinder others' enjoyment.

  Robert Sheaffer

  Race, Sight, People

  Robert Sheaffer (1991). “The Making of the Messiah: Christianity and Resentment”

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• The compensation of growing old ... was simply this; that the passion remains as strong as ever, but one has gained -- at last! -- the power which adds the supreme flavour to existence -- the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light.

  Virginia Woolf

  Strong, Light, Add

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.79, Broadview Press

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• People have committed suicide because of their failure to realize the passions for love , power , fame , revenge . Cases of suicide because of a lack of sexual satisfaction are virtually nonexistent.

  Erich Fromm

  Suicide, Revenge, People

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any. By enlisting passion on his side he wants to stifle his reason and its doubts: thus he will acquire a good conscience and with it success among his fellow men.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Rights, Soul

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.191, Cambridge University Press

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• Our conviction that the world is meaningless is due in part to the fact (discussed in a later paragraph) that the philosophy of meaningless lends itself very effectively to furthering the ends of political and erotic passion; in part to a genuine intellectual error - the error of identifying the world of science, a world from which all meaning has deliberately been excluded, with ultimate reality.

  Aldous Huxley

  Philosophy, Reality, Errors

  Aldous Huxley (2017). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry into the Nature of Ideals”, p.153, Routledge

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• In fact a man in love or one consumed with hatred creates symbols for himself, as a superstitious man does, from a passion of conferring uniqueness on things or persons. A man who knows nothing of symbols is one of Dante's sluggards. This is why art mirrors itself in primitive rites or strong passions, seeking for symbols, revolving round the primitive taste for savagery, for what is irrational (blood and sex).

  Cesare Pavese

  Art, Strong, Sex

  Cesare Pavese (2017). “This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950”, p.286, Routledge

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