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“Hitler ... lacked the [inclination] for anything more than the occasional sensational display of emotion, in particular the great set-piece speech which mesmerized the mob and left him drained of ... energy.”

Energy Left Emotion Pieces Particular Speech Display Inclination Occasional Drained Sensational Mesmerized

Author:John Keegan

“But our gusty emotions say to me that we have / Tasted heaven many times: these delicacies / Are left over from some larger party.”

Left Heaven Party Emotion Delicacy

Book:Stealing Sugar from the Castle: Selected and New Poems, 1950-2013: Selected Poems, 1950–2011

Source: Stealing Sugar from the Castle: Selected and New Poems, 1950-2013: Selected Poems, 1950–2011

“I rejoice that the reign of Christ is such, while it thrills the soul with emotions, and opens before the highest intellect the most ooundless conceptions, we are left at the same time ready, though our hearts be thrilled, to have our hands filled for deeds of benevolence and love. The happiest moments may be the busiest moments.”

Heart May Soul Moments Hands Left Christ Emotion Ready Highest And Love Filled Deeds Intellect Conception Rejoice Reign Benevolence

Author:Matthew Simpson

“Art that means anything in the life of a community must bear some relation to current interpretations of the mystery of the universe. Our rigid separation of the humanities and the sciences has temporarily left our art stranded or stammering and incoherent. Both art and science ought to be blended in our early education of our children's emotions and powers of observation, and that harmony carried forward in later education.”

“Missing someone has to be one of the worst human emotions. All the other feelings like anger and fear and horror get some much more airplay, as if their intensity gives them more value, but whereas those emotions come in violent bursts and are gone again, the gnawing ache of loss has to be simply endured. It's like background noise, it's always there, it never goes away. You just have to try to block it out, distract yourself, hope that tomorrow the hole they left behind has grown a little smaller.”

“A speech from Ernest Bevin on a major occasion had all the horrific fascination of a public execution. If the mind was left immune, eyes and ears and emotions were riveted.”

Ifs Mind Eye Left Emotion Speech Majors Ears Occasions Execution Fascination Immune Horrific

Author:Michael Foot

“In all the known history of Mankind, advances have been made primarily in physical technology; in the capacity of handling the inanimate world about Man. Control of self and society has been left to to chance or to the vague gropings of intuitive ethical systems based on inspiration and emotion. As a result no culture of greater stability than about fifty-five percent has ever existed, and these only as the result of great human misery.”

Source: The foundation trilogy: three classics of science fiction

“The remnants of pain left behind by every strong negative emotion that is not fully faced, accepted, and then let go of join together to form an energy field that lives in the very cells of your body.”

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose