"Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master."

Chambers, Oswald on determination   

"When I was young, I said to God, god, tell me the mystery of the universe. But God answered, that knowledge is for me alone. So I said, god, tell me the mystery of the peanut. Then God said, well, George, that's more nearly your size."

Carver, George Washington on god
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"Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions."

Disraeli, Benjamin on greatness
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"Patience is passion tamed."

Abbott, Lyman on patience
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"Passion is the genesis of genius."

Robbins, Anthony on passion
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"Nothing fools people as much as extreme passion."

Hall, Bishop on extremes and extremists
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"Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes."

Cosby, Bill on music
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"I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on life   

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

Herzen, Alexander on passion
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"Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things."

Diderot, Denis on passion
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"You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed."

Irving, John on passion
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"Aim for your star, no matter how far, you must reach high above and touch your life with love, you must never look back, but charge on! Attack! See your goal your star of desire, see it red hot, feel it burning, you must be obsessed with it to make it your true yearning, be ready my friends for when you truly believe it, you will certainly achieve it and by all of God?s universal laws you will always receive it!"

Smith, Bob on dream   

"A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his own image."

Didion, Joan on places   

"The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God."

Eckhart, Meister on god
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