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• Heresy is a word which, when it is used without passion, signifies a private opinion. So the different sects of the old philosophers, Academians, Peripatetics, Epicureans, Stoics, &c., were called heresies.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Atheism, Different, Opinion

  Thomas Hobbes (1840). “The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Dialogue between a philosopher and a student of the common laws in England. Behemoth: The history of the causes of the civil wars of England. The whole art of rhetoric. The art of rhetoric, plainly set forth. The art of sophistry”, p.174

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• I say then, that belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. This variety of terms, which may seem so unphilosophical, is intended only to express that act of the mind, which renders realities, or what is taken for such, more present to us than fictions, causes them to weigh more in the thought, and gives them a superior influence on the passions and imagination.

  David Hume

  Taken, Reality, Giving

  David Hume (1758). “Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition”, p.311

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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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• There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call extreme self-seeking is actually self-renunciation. The miser, health addict, glory chaser and their like are not far behind the selfless in the exercise of self-sacrifice.

  Eric Hoffer

  Selfish, Exercise, Sacrifice

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• I've always loved the old epics that tell a simple emotional story, whether it's the tumultuous relationship between Rhett and Scarlett or Lawrence of Arabia's passion to get lost in a faraway place.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Epic, Simple, Emotional

  "How we made the epic of Oz". www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2008.

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• It was a lot of fun being a child actress. It suited me. I don't think it suits everybody, but I was in it because I had a passion, not because my parents wanted me to make money. If other kids want to do it, and they really like acting, go for it.

  Alanna Ubach

  Children, Fun, Kids

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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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• Today enormous effort goes into convincing the American public that we're just consumers of media manipulation and sound-bites and spin doctors. That we care only about ourselves, money, and stuff. That acting out of passion and conviction doesn't make a difference. But all history shows that it does.

  Bernardine Dohrn

  Media, Differences, Doctors

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• I was raised in a family where cinema was a way of life. It was not only about making films, it was relationship, passion, love, everything at the same time.

  Thomas Langmann

  Cinema, Way, Film

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• Acting will always be my first passion, it's what I live to do and I hope to be lucky enough to do it the rest of my life.

  Devon Werkheiser

  Acting, Firsts, Lucky

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• I'm sure when the times comes, there will be tears, but there are other avenues that I am embracing with much more passion these days.

  Cat Osterman

  Tears, These Days, Avenues

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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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• I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows in the leafy lanes and bypaths of literature,--in the genial Summertime.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Song, Children, Summertime

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861). “Hyperion, a romance. Kavanagh, a tale”, p.79

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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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• Our world is incomplete until each one of us discovers what moves us - our passion. No other person can hear our calling. We must listen and act on it for ourselves.

  Richard Leider

  Life, Moving, Our World

  Richard J. Leider (2008). “The Power of Purpose: Creating Meaning in Your Life and Work: Easyread Edition”, p.24, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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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• 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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• Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he recognizes that he is empty, insufficient, dependent, ineffectual. From the depths of his soul now comes at once boredom, gloom, sorrow, chagrin, resentment and despair.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Boredom, Soul

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• Never let us do wrong, because our opponents did so. Let us, rather, by doing right, show them what they ought to have done, and establish a rule the dictates of reason and conscience, rather than of the angry passions.

  James Joyce

  Done, Opponents, Reason

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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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• 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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• Enemies could become the best companions. Companionship is based on a common interest, and the greater the interest the closer the companionship. What makes enemies of people, if not the eagerness, the passion for the same thing?

  Bernard Berenson

  People, Enemy, Common

  Bernard Berenson (1963). “Sunset and Twilight: From the Diaries of 1947-1958”, New York : Harcourt, Brace & World

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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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• 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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• 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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