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“It goes with the passionate intensity and deep conviction of the truth of a religious belief, and of course of the importance of the superstitious observances that go with it, that we should want others to share it - and the only certain way to cause a religious belief to be held by everyone is to liquidate nonbelievers. The price in blood and tears that mankind generally has had to pay for the comfort and spiritual refreshment that religion has brought to a few has been too great to justify our entrusting moral accountancy to religious belief.”

Source: The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science

“Our belief in education is unbounded, our reverence for it is unfaltering, our loyalty to it is unshaken by reverses. Our passionate desire, not so much to acquire it as to bestow it, is the most animated of American traits.”

Desire Belief Passionate Loyalty Acquire Reverence Traits Reverse Animated Passionate Desire

Book:American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier

Source: American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier

“Passionate grave thought, belief enhanced, ritual returned and magic.”

Belief Magic Passionate Graves Ritual

Book:Collected Poems 1912-1944

Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944

“It is high time that laymen abandoned the misleading belief that scientific enquiry is a cold dispassionate enterprise, bleached of imaginative qualities, and that a scientist is a man who turns the handle of discovery; for at every level of endeavour scientific research is a passionate undertaking and the Promotion of Natural Knowledge depends above all on a sortee into what can be imagined but is not yet known.”

“Passionate leaders driven by passionate beliefs draw passionate followers.”

Belief Leader Draws Passionate Driven Followers

Book:The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters

Source: The Conviction to Lead: 25 Principles for Leadership That Matters