#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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Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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

— Sabrina Lloyd

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Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#been #emotions #evoke #fundamentalism #german

Passions are the gales of life. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#life #passions

The true God He has extension, and form, and dimensions. He occupies space; has a body, parts, and passions; can go from place to place. He can eat, drink, and talk. ↗

— Orson Pratt

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If good history is dispassionate history, it must naturally wait until the passions of the period subside. ↗

— James Buchan

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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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One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

#god #hear #hum #human #interests