#passions

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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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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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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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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Try hard to find out what you're good at and what your passions are, and where the two converge, and build your life around that. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

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

— Sabrina Lloyd

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I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

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