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• This novel has it all--mystery, psychological insight, emotional truth, and--most important--characters whose lives matter. You'll fall in love with these families. Solti writes with such passion it is inescapable, lyrical, and profoundly moving. The Forgetting Tree goes on my top ten list.

  Jonis Agee

  Falling In Love, Moving, Character

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• The most abundant resources that we possess amongst the 1.5 million nonprofits in the United States are passion and knowledge, yet our most scarce resource is collaboration.

  Adam Braun

  Collaboration, United States, Nonprofits

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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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• Yoga answers a lot of physical problems such as back pain, stress issues, and any kind of joint problems or illnesses. Even more important is the spiritual questioning that comes up around our middle years. We wonder what do I want to hand down to my children, and how do I want to spend my days on this earth? I think yoga begins to help us look at what our passions and our dreams are. And it helps give us the courage once we find passion to actually pursue that!

  Rodney Yee

  Dream, Spiritual, Children

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• Companies, as they grow to become multi-billion-dollar entities, somehow lose their vision. They insert lots of layers of middle management between the people running the company and the people doing the work. They no longer have an inherent feel or a passion about the products. The creative people, who are the ones who care passionately, have to persuade five layers of management to do what they know is the right thing to do.

  Steve Jobs

  Running, Business, Middle Management

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• A man, at least, is free; he can explore every passion, every land, overcome obstacles, taste the most distant pleasures. But a woman is continually thwarted. Inert and pliant at the same time, she must struggle against both the softness of her flesh and subjection to the law. Her will, like the veil tied to her hat by a string, flutters with every breeze; there is always some desire luring her on, some convention holding her back.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Women, Struggle, Land

  Gustave Flaubert (2010). “Madame Bovary: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.92, Penguin

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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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• 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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• What is erotic? The acrobatic play of the imagination. The sea of memories in which we bathe. The way we caress and worship things with our eyes. Our willingness to be stirred by the sight of the voluptuous. What is erotic is our passion for the liveliness of life.

  Diane Ackerman

  Memories, Eye, Sight

  Diane Ackerman (1994). “A Natural History of Love”, Vintage

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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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• 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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• 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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• Try to remember this: what you project Is what you will perceive; what you perceive With any passion, be it love or terror, May take on whims and powers of its own. Therefore a numb and grudging circumspection Will serve you best - unless you overdo it, Watching your step too narrowly, refusing To specify a world, shrinking your purview To a tight vision of your inching shoes, Which may, as soon as you come to think, be crossing An unseen gorge upon a rotten trestle.

  Richard Wilbur

  Thinking, Shoes, Vision

  Richard Wilbur (2006). “Collected Poems 1943-2004”, p.235, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• 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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• Passions are generally roused from great conflict.

  Livy

  Conflict

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book III, section 40,

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• When it comes to fundraising for a social enterprise, if you are pursuing your true passion, you'll learn to become great at your craft because you'll care so much about perfecting the skills necessary to make that dream a reality.

  Adam Braun

  Dream, Reality, Skills

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• Charity is not a potency of the soul, because if it were it would be natural. Nor is it a passion, because it is not in a sensitive potency in which are all passions. Nor is it a habit, because a habit is removed with difficulty; charity, however, is easily lost through one act of mortal sin. Therefore charity is not something created in the soul.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Soul, Would Be, Charity

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• Moderate sorrow Fits vulgar love, and for a vulgar man: But I have lov'd with such transcendent passion, I soar'd, at first, quite out of reason's view, And now am lost above it.

  John Dryden

  Men, Views, Sorrow

  1678 All for Love, or The World Well Lost, act 2.

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• Love is the impulse which directs the world, And all things know it and obey its power. Man, in the maelstrom of his passions whirled; The bee that takes the pollen to the flower; The earth, uplifting her bare, pulsing breast To fervent kisses of the amorous sun;-- Each but obeys creative Love's behest, Which everywhere instinctively is done.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Love, Uplifting, Flower

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.553, Delphi Classics

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• Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.

  Aldous Huxley

  Feelings, Madness, Impulse

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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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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• Political agitation, by the passions it arouses or the convictions it engenders, may in fact stimulate men to the violation of the law. Detestation of existing policies is easily transformed into forcible resistance of the authority which puts them in execution, and it would be folly to disregard the causal relation between the two. Yet to assimilate agitation, legitimate as such, with direct incitement to violent resistance, is to disregard the tolerance of all methods of political agitation which in normal times is a safeguard of free government.

  Learned Hand

  Men, Law, Two

  Learned Hand (1968). “The art and craft of judging: the decisions of Judge Learned Hand”

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• Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.

  Aristotle

  Human Nature, Reason, Irrational

  Aristotle (1869). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.65

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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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