#passions

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

— William Osler

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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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As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

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The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason. ↗

— Herbert Read

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Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors. ↗

— Antoine Rivarol

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Vices are often habits rather than passions. ↗

— Antoine Rivarol

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

— Tina Yothers

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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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Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies. ↗

— Joseph Wood Krutch

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To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude. ↗

— Richard Steele

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