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I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.

Oprah Winfrey
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To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

Oscar Wilde
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A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do. -Oscar Wilde
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Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do. With such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

Virgil
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

Oprah Winfrey
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It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted. -Seneca
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Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

Anthony J. D'angelo
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A strong passion for any object will ensure success, for the desire of the end will point out the means.

William Hazlitt
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Passion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.' -Sue Halpern
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When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.

Margery Allingham
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My passion for opera-the eternal truth of drama through music-has grown, while my interest in performance has diminished. Which is perhaps as good a reason as any other to go quietly.

Lord Harewood
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Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age. -James Joyce
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Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.

D. H. Lawrence
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He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Cicero
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Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. -Georg Wilhelm
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Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.

Robert Sternberg
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It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.

Christian Nevell Bovee
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. -Jack Kerouac
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There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.

Saul Bellow
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My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

Bette Davis
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Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. -Denis Diderot
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With out passion you don't have energy, with out energy you have nothing.

Donald Trump
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I had learnt to seek intensity…more of life, a concentrated sense of life.

Nina Berberova
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There is something remarkably and peculiarly English about the passion for sitting on damp seats watching open-air drama only the English have mastered the art of being truly uncomfortable while facing up to culture. -Sheridan Morley
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Vices are often habits rather than passions.

Antoine Rivarol
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We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

Sue Grafton
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The worst sin - perhaps the only sin - passion can commit, is to be joyless. -Dorothy L. Sayers
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There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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The conquest of passion gives ten times more happiness than we can reap from the gratification of it.

Richard Steele, Sr.
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As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. -Antisthenes
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