"I look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed it is a vein which nature seems to have marked with more or less strength, in the tempers of most men. No matter what the object is, whether business, pleasures or the fine arts: whoever pursues them to any purpose must do so con amore."

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Source : William Melmoth (1805). “Fitzosborne's Letters on Several Subjects”, p.1

William Melmoth

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“I'd like something that faces reality. We have 12 million people in this country that are undocumented - that's a reality. It's not going to be like they're all going to leave. One of the reasons I'm holding this hearing in the morning is to hear from somebody who actually understands what's involved here - Janet Napolitano - and I hope that from what she says and what we hear from her, we can start building some consensus.”
“Hubble is very close to my heart, and going back to Hubble, because I was there once already in 1993, is really a great privilege for me.”
“I think Baywatch is such a hit here because of the weather.”
“You cannot find your soul with your mind, you must use your heart. You must know what you are feeling. If you don't know what you are feeling, you will create unconsciously. If you are unconscious of an aspect of yourself; if it operates outside your field of awareness, that aspect has power over you.”
“I love to rescue animals.... The pounds were so crowded they were putting animals down almost immediately. Seven thousand dogs were put to sleep.”
“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utterâ€” they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.”
“When we realize we can make a buck cleaning up the environment, it will be done!”
“I am not at all convinced that human emissions of CO2 are adding to global warming.... I remain to be convinced about the theory of anthropogenic global warming.”

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