#passions

We are minor in everything but our passions. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

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The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

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In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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Traveling is one of my great passions and something I do a lot of. ↗

— Sabrina Lloyd

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The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget. ↗

— William Osler

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I envy people with dreams and passions, but I don't think that way. I still don't have a 'bliss' to follow. For people like me - I suspect that's most people - holding out for a 'dream' or a 'passion' is paralyzing. I just like having work I enjoy that feels meaningful. That's hard enough... but it's enough. ↗

— Jane Pauley

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Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good? ↗

— Zebulon Pike

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We build our technologies as a way of addressing all our anxieties and desires. They are our passions congealed into these prosthetic extensions of ourselves. And they do it in a way that reflects what we dream ourselves capable of doing. ↗

— Richard Powers

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I stopped acting because I had other passions I wanted to pursue. ↗

— Tina Yothers

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The time at our disposal each day is elastic; the passions we feel dilate it, those that inspire us shrink it, and habit fills it. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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