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| Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. (Howard Scott) |
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| Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey "people." People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.... (C. S. Lewis The Abolition of Man) |
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| We cannot be too earnest, too persistent, too determined, about living superior to the herd-instinct. (Author Unknown) |
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| I believe that justice is instinct and innate, the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing. (Thomas Jefferson) |
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| Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. (Josh Billings) |
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| All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) |
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| The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all. (Benjamin Spock) |
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| Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason (Ralph Waldo Emerson) |
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| Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature --- and another woman to help him forget them. (Helen Rowland) |
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| Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness. (George Santayana) |
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| Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius. (George Bernard Shaw) |
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| The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it. (James Agate) |
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| Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes. (Erving Goffman) |
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| Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instincts can be perceived. (Bertrand Russell) |
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| Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual. (Friedrich Nietzsche) |
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The ideal condition
Would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct;
But since we are all likely to go astray,
The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach. (Sophocles Antigone) |
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| I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well, remembering that she has seen dark times before, indeed with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) |
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| He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed. (Saki) |
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| The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it. (Elaine Agather) |
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| Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience. (George Santayana The Life of Reason Volume 1 1905) |
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| The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection. (Bertrand Russell) |
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| The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct. (Cicero) |
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| The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head. (Jean Cocteau Journey to Freedom) |
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| Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out. (Michael Burke) |
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| It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin. (Katharine Butler Hathaway) |
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