"Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind."

Passion, Love, Knowledge, Compassion

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"Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind."

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"Passion is finding something you're unwilling to live without."

Mensah Oteh, Nigerian Author

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"Passion is passion. It's the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it doesn't matter where it's directed...It can be coins or sports or politics or horses or music or faith...the saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all."

Nicholas Sparks, American Author

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"When people are not passionate about their goals, everything is more of a struggle."

Susan C. Young, American Author

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"Tis better to have love and lustThan to let our apparatus rust."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"Rich people don't work for money, but work passionately until the end of their lives."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable."

Stephen Fry, British Comedian

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"There comes a time that every obstacle may stand against you, it takes your love to keep you on track with what you are passionate about pursuing."

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind."

Jeanette Winterson, British Novelist

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"During my mental illness, thank God, my grandma was my human rescuer and angel, she ask me to stop taking the medication, leading to the recovering."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"The objections to religion are of two sorts -- intellectual and moral. The intellectual objection is that there is no reason to suppose any religion true, the moral objection is that religious precepts date from a time when men were more cruel than they are and therefore tend to perpetuate inhumanities which the moral conscience of the age would otherwise outgrow."

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"I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along."

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"When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself."

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"And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence."

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"Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself."

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"The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts."

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"Man needs for his happiness not only the enjoyment of this or that but hope and enterprise and change."

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"To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness."

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"...It is necessary for the average citizen, if he wishes to make a living, to avoid incurring the hostility of certain big men. And these big men have an outlook - religious, moral, and political - with which they expect their employees to agree, at least outwardly."

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"It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they (world religions) disagree, not more than one of them can be true."

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