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That is the American story. People, just like you, following their passions, determined to meet the times on their own terms. They weren't doing it for the money. Their titles weren't fancy. But they changed the course of history and so can you.

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It was the mystical dogma of Bentham and Adam Smith and the rest, that some of the worst of human passions would turn out to be all for the best. It was the mysterious doctrine that selfishness would do the work of unselfishness.

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A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

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There is no fire like passion: there is no evil and hatred.

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We must not let our passions destroy our dreams.

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We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational.

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Affection, mistress of passion, sways it to the mood of what it likes or loathes.

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Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

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Follow your passion. Do what you love, and the money will follow. Most people don't believe it, but it's true.

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Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything.

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This music crept by me upon the waters, Allaying both their fury and my passion With its sweet air: thence I have follow’d it.

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America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness is built upon our freedom - is moral, not material. We have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.

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Passion persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse.

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Passion is a rather frightening thing because if you have passion you don't know where it will take you.

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The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

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How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.

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The Italians are not passionate: passion has deep reserves. They are easily moved, and often affectionate, but they rarely have any abiding passion of any sort.

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Tis pleasant purchasing our fellow-creatures; And all are to be sold, if you consider Their passions, and are dext'rous; some by features Are brought up, others by a warlike leader; Some by a place--as tend their years or natures; The most by ready cash--but all have prices, From crowns to kicks, according to their vices.

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It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.

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It excites world wonder in the Parliamentary countries that we should build a Chamber, starting afresh, which can only seat two-thirds of its Members. It is difficult to explain this to those who do not know our ways. They cannot easily be made to understand why we consider that the intensity, passion, intimacy, informality and spontaneity of our Debates constitute the personality of the House of Commons and endow it at once with its focus and its strength.

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