...The human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

N. H. Kleinbaum
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It is what we stay alive for. These are the things that make us feel alive. The essence of these things is passion, the force behind our existence. It is what makes all of us human.

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