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• Endurance running was my passion, my ride. So here, I was in the driver's seat, running for two days straight pushing the mental and physical limits striving to be better, to go farther, to give more.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Two, Giving

  Dean Karnazes (2017). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.141, Atlantic Books

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• It is a great good fortune, as Stendhal said, for one "to have his passion as a profession.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Fortune, Said, Profession

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1988). “In Praise of Philosophy and Other Essays”, p.4, Northwestern University Press

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• Surely to root politics out of art is a highly necessary undertaking: for the freedom of art, like that of science, depends entirely upon its objectivity and non-practical, non-partisan passion.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Art, Objectivity, Roots

  Wyndham Lewis (1929). “The Diabolical Principle and The Dithyrambic Spectator”, p.40, Ardent Media

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• The rest of Sitka's homicides are so-called crimes of passion, which is a shorthand way of expressing the mathematical product of alcohol and firearms.

  Michael Chabon

  Alcohol, Way, Crime

  Michael Chabon (2012). “The Yiddish Policemen's Union: A Novel”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• This world has few redeeming features, and one is the capacity for people to love one another with great, enduring passion.

  David Gemmell

  People, World, Love One Another

  "Legend". Book by David Gemmell, "Drenai series", Ch. 12, 1984.

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• Happiness is this place that, once you arrive there, you have nothing else to do. You get bored. Passion is this up and down; it's like a rollercoaster, you know, and much more interesting to me.

  Paulo Coelho

  Interesting, Bored, Rollercoaster

  "Book Talk: Paulo Coelho on life, work and 'Adultery'". Interview with Lisa Von Ahn, www.reuters.com. November 13, 2014.

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• I actually write as a passion, as something I actually am more passionate about than acting.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Writing, Acting, Passionate

  Source: collider.com

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• Passion is listening.

  Rahul Gandhi

  Listening

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• There is a sort of creative purity in an independent film, in the passion of the director, the passion of the crew. They're not getting a whole lot of money, so you know they are not there because they want to get rich. Instead, they are there because they want to make a movie. In the bigger films, I remember when I used to do those, it's just a job for a lot of people, so there is less of an intense energy devoted to the whole project.

  Amy Irving

  Jobs, Independent, People

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• The monk, the inquisitor, and the Jesuit were lords of Spain,- sovereigns of her sovereign, for they had formed the dark and narrow mind of that tyrannical recluse. They had formed the minds of her people, quenched in blood every spark of rising heresy, and given over a noble nation to a bigotry blind and inexorable as the doom of fate. Linked with pride, ambition, avarice, every passion of a rich, strong nature, potent for good and ill, it made the Spaniard of that day a scourge as dire as ever fell on man.

  Francis Parkman

  Strong, Ambition, Fate

  Francis Parkman (1927). “The Works of Francis Parkman”

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• The sum of the crowd's IQ was far below that of its most modest single member. Mobs have passions, not brains.

  Dan Simmons

  Brain, Crowds, Members

  Dan Simmons (2011). “The Fall of Hyperion”, p.316, Spectra

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• Connect with all the passions people have - for themselves, their families, their communities and wider world - and they will follow you to the ends of the earth, buy your products and services with pride, and may even be willing to work for you for next to nothing.

  Patrick Dixon

  Pride, People, Community

  "Building a Better Business". Book by Patrick Dixon, 2005.

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• You cannot have strong leadership without passion.

  Patrick Dixon

  Strong

  Patrick Dixon (2005). “Building a Better Business: The Key to Future Marketing, Management and Motivation”, p.59, Profile Books

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• Justice lacking passion fails, betrays.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Justice, Failing, Lacking

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• Examine from time to time what are the dominant passions of your soul, and having ascertained this, mold your life, so that in thought, word, and deed you may as far as possible counteract them.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Soul, Mold, Saint

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• My aim is a continuous, sustained, uncontrived image, motivated by nothing but passion.

  Rico Lebrun

  Emotion, Motivated, Aim

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• I have always had a passion for the beautiful. If the man in me is often a pessimist, the artist, on the contrary, is pre-eminently an optimist.

  Jules Breton

  Beautiful, Artist, Men

  Jules Breton (1891). “The Life of an Artist: Art and Nature”

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• I think if you find your passion and you go with it you are rewarded.

  Kirby Larson

  Thinking, Ifs

  "Interview with Kirby Larson, Author of Hattie Big Sky". Interview with Cindy Hudson, motherdaughterbookclub.com. February 23, 2010.

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• Whoever is acquainted with the cruel injustice and unjust subordination frequently manifested in the family, whoever sees matters of lasting and supreme importance relative to the beginning and continuance of the family determined by momentary fancy or unreasoning passion, cannot but desire the construction of a social fabric in which reason may rule with perfect justice.

  Charles Franklin Thwing

  Perfect, Justice, Desire

  Charles Franklin Thwing, Carrie Frances Butler Thwing (1886). “The Family: An Historical and Social Study”

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• In a very real sense, the Constitution is our compact with history . . . [but] the Constitution can maintain that compact and serve as the lodestar of our political system only if its terms are binding on us. To the extent we depart from the document's language and rely instead on generalities that we see written between the lines, we rob the Constitution of its binding force and give free reign to the fashions and passions of the day.

  Alex Kozinski

  Fashion, Real, Giving

  "It Is a Constitution We Are Expounding: A Debate" by A. Kozinski & J.D. Williams, Utah L. Rev. 978, at 980, 1989.

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• The world is only as deep as we can see. This is why fools think themselves profound. This is why terror is the passion of revelation.

  R. Scott Bakker

  Thinking, Profound, World

  R. Scott Bakker (2010). “The Judging Eye: One (The Aspect-Emperor Trilogy)”, p.238, The Overlook Press

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• Stirner and Nietzsche ... reveal how prone morality is to being used as a means of rationalization, a cloak for concealing violent and brutish passions, and making their sadistic expression a virtue.

  John Carroll

  Mean, Expression, Morality

  John Carroll (2010). “Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky”, p.30, Taylor & Francis

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• Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. and the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Children, Growing Up, Book

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.156

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• The people who have the biggest passion for restricting other people's behavior are the very people we should worry about most. Unfortunately, they keep running for office.

  John Stossel

  Running, Worry, Office

  "Busybody Politicians, Get Off Our Backs" by John Stossel, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 06, 2006.

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• You try and work hard and get better each week. I play the game with passion. I enjoy the game. It's a lot of fun when I'm out there. That's the way I play. For some reason, people like that.

  Tony Romo

  Fun, Hard Work, Games

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