#passions

I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex. ↗

— Thom Gunn

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Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

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When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

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You can no more bridle passions with logic than you can justify them in the law courts. Passions are facts and not dogmas. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

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There is in most passions a shrinking away from ourselves. The passionate pursuer has all the earmarks of a fugitive. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions. ↗

— David Hume

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From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

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All the dark, malevolent Passions of the Soul are roused and exerted; its mild and amiable affections are suppressed; and with them, virtuous Principles are laid prostrate. ↗

— Charles Inglis

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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

#failure #fault #i #lack #passions

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

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