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We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty.
Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
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Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.
Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
~Benjamin Franklin
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It is with our passions as it is with fire and water; they are good servants, but bad masters.
Roger L'Estrange, Aesop's Fables, 1692
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Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason.
John Wesley
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Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
Ice T, The Ice Opinion, quoted in Reader's Digest, "Quotable Quotes," February 2002
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Chase down your passion like it's the last bus of the night.
Glade Byron Addams
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Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
~Harold Whitman
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My heart beat so hard when I was near him, I feared he could hear my secret longing for him.
Destiny Vaestus
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The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.
Carl Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
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Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
Amiel, Journal, 17 December 1856
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