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Thoughts dance like leaves in the wind, beautifully flashy before fading into the void, creating a poetry only the soul perceives.
Author:
Felix Montgomery
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Indeed, fleeting insights race like fireflies in the dusk, illuminating paths of thought we had not dared to tread before - champions of forgotten ideas ignited only momentarily before silence takes them again.
Author:
Ella Harrison
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Every instinct is a guiding star; consider each step, but dance to thy Latitude of the heartbeat.
Author:
Luna Brealyn
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Amidst life's unrehearsed ballet, it is pulsations between heartbeats and whispers unspoken that shape the captivating flow of irresistible smiles.
Author:
Melody Harper
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In momentary whispers from the depths of uncharted knowing, intuitive wisdom attracts our curiosities like unseen gravity, pulling us toward truths shadowing our logical refutation.
Author:
Alana Ravelex
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In the dance of unexpected moments, we write stories that the script had never foreseen.
Author:
Arabella Thieme
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Mastery often reveals itself not through the rigor of routines, but in the serene moments when instincts intervene and create harmony beyond study.
Author:
Elara Quinn
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People's intentions may be good, but their perspectives may be limited; always trust your own instincts.
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Maya Angelou
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My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.
Author:
Slavoj Zizek
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The people of western Missouri are, in some respects, very peculiar. We will take Jackson county where I was born for instance. In that section the people seemed to be born fighters, the instinct being inherited from a long line of ancestors.
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Cole Younger
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If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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As an adult (after college) and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me - it was Christian Science. I was using that when I didn't know it. Saying yes to the Light and your better instinct.
Author:
Alfre Woodard
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Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path.
Author:
Henry Winkler
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I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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Yet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct.
Author:
Henry Williamson
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If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have.
Author:
Kit Williams
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Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
Author:
Billy Wilder
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
Author:
Mae West
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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
Author:
Evelyn Waugh
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In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.
Author:
Mary Ward
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I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.
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Julie Walters
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I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.
Author:
Anthony Trollope
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But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do.
Author:
Cheryl Tiegs
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The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
Author:
James Thurber
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The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.
Author:
Dorothy Thompson
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The most important thing is to follow your instinct and get involved with some friends who have similar tastes and aspirations and like music as much as you do.
Author:
Mick Taylor
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I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.
Author:
Barbra Streisand
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I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.
Author:
Peter Straub
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Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.
Author:
John Sterling
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Author:
Socrates
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And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.
Author:
Ayrton Senna
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And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.
Author:
Ayrton Senna
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Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize.
Author:
Valentine Saint-Point
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Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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Of course no one thought of anything except of attacking the enemy. It lies in the instinct of every German to rush at the enemy wherever he meets him, particularly if he meets hostile cavalry.
Author:
Manfred Richthofen
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A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.
Author:
Ezra Pound
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I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!
Author:
Camille Pissarro
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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
Author:
Pablo Picasso
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
Author:
Wendell Phillips
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Your instinct, rather than precision stabbing, is more about just random bludgeoning.
Author:
Simon Pegg
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I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards.
Author:
Austin Peck
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Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
Author:
Blaise Pascal
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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
Author:
Ovid
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I usually go with the first instinct, and then build upon that.
Author:
John Otto
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Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.
Author:
Laurence Olivier
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People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together. It's a funny, primitive instinct.
Author:
Phillip Noyce
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I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.
Author:
Richard Nixon
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
Author:
Anais Nin
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You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Author:
Hector Munro
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He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Author:
Hector Munro
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And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the game is played with passion, love for football and instinct, but in football you also have to think.
Author:
Jose Mourinho
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I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.
Author:
Dylan Moran
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There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
Author:
Golda Meir
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The left-leaning thinking that dominates the movie business follows a common liberal instinct to deny the spiritual dimension to every problem, thereby profoundly compounding the difficulties.
Author:
Michael Medved
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When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.
Author:
John McCarthy
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Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.
Author:
Henri Matisse
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One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else.
Author:
Branford Marsalis
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Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
Author:
Don Marquis
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Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.
Author:
Jacques Maritain
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Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.
Author:
Thomas Mann
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Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's always the bumps that are the most interesting stuff.
Author:
Adrian Lyne
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My mum says, 'Go with your first instinct,' but this can lead to impulse buying!
Author:
Lindsay Lohan
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All the learning in the world cannot replace instinct.
Author:
Robert Ley
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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.
Author:
C. Lewis
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The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror.
Author:
Sonya Levien
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Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.
Author:
Sugar Leonard
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My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.
Author:
Ang Lee
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It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.
Author:
David Leavitt
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Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.
Author:
Denis Leary
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Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can't learn what's right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you.
Author:
Dino Laurentiis
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Making movies is all about instinct.
Author:
Dino Laurentiis
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I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.
Author:
Karl Lagerfeld
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The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Author:
Carl Jung
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There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then.
Author:
Steve Irwin
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Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.
Author:
Muhammed Iqbal
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If I'd seen a grown man beating a crippled boy, of course I'd intervene. If my father died and left my mother destitute, it's your instinct to take care of her. So when I started to think about it in those terms, it started to make sense to me.
Author:
Charlie Hunnam
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Reason is a passion; an instinct, a drive.
Author:
Bette Howland
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Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.
Author:
Ben Hogan
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To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is to be sensitive to woman.
Author:
Jane Harrison
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Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.
Author:
Germaine Greer
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I was thinking about doing another film at the same time, which was the sequel to Basic Instinct and I just had a feeling that wasn't going to happen. You know, I just kind of read the writing on the wall.
Author:
Bruce Greenwood
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I loved being asked 2,000 questions a day, storyboarding every move, knowing as though by instinct exactly where the camera had to be, because it was my story.
Author:
Richard Grant
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My instinct was that it was Sidney's childhood in the Bahamas that gave him the fearlessness to fight racism. So this documentary was a kind of rounding out of what had begun in that scene in In the Heat of the Night.
Author:
Lee Grant
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It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water.
Author:
Stone Gossard
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Instinct is the nose of the mind.
Author:
Delphine Girardin
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There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.
Author:
Katharine Gerould
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Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.
Author:
W. George
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It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
Author:
Sigmund Freud
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
Author:
Anatole France
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My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?
Author:
Colin Firth
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The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
Author:
Edgar Fiedler
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Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity.
Author:
Havelock Ellis
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How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.
Author:
Shirin Ebadi
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Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
Author:
Max Eastman
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Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!
Author:
Charles Eastman
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Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.
Author:
Theodore Dreiser
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
Author:
Walt Disney
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I love acting and I still want to do it, but I've such an instinct for directing, it's something that comes naturally to me. It's why I'm here on this planet.
Author:
Julie Delpy
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Reason is the servant of instinct.
Author:
Clarence Day
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The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
Author:
Charles Darwin
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If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
Author:
Will Cuppy
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If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
Author:
Will Cuppy
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I had this instinct and I just knew it. It was a very strange thing and as soon as I finished recording it, we were all in the studio saying we have something really special here.
Author:
Deborah Cox
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
Author:
William Cowper
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Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.
Author:
Anna Cooper
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I gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity.
Author:
Jeffrey Combs
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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, the finish by loading honors on your head.
Author:
Jean Cocteau
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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
Author:
Marcus Cicero
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I had an instinct before and maybe now I don't have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots to hit, where to place the ball, things like that.
Author:
Jennifer Capriati
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Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
Author:
Albert Camus
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
Author:
Lord Byron
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Author:
Samuel Butler
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Author:
Edmund Burke
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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Author:
Edmund Burke
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Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.
Author:
Jimmy Buffett
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I live on my gut instinct.
Author:
Melanie Brown
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And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment.
Author:
Bill Brandt
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
Author:
F. Bradley
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I'm much more attracted personally to governments going their full term. It's very hard to have a fixed term election I know with ah... a parliamentary democracy, but I've always had an instinct to say there should be a fixed term.
Author:
Jim Bolger
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Style is primarily a matter of instinct.
Author:
Bill Blass
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Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
Author:
Josh Billings
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At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession.
Author:
Henry Bessemer
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Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
Author:
Henri Bergson
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Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.
Author:
Paul Berg
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All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.
Author:
Hilaire Belloc
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Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
Author:
Max Beerbohm
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To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
Author:
Max Beerbohm
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The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman.
Author:
Theda Bara
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Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.
Author:
Honore Balzac
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I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
Author:
Stanley Baldwin
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The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate characterization and dialogue memorable in itself produces dramatic literature.
Author:
George Baker
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Instinct is untaught ability.
Author:
Alexander Bain
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
Author:
Matthew Arnold
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Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.
Author:
Anne Archer
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She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
Author:
Louisa Alcott
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Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct.
Author:
Mortimer Adler
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Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.
Author:
Isabelle Adjani
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A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.
Author:
Lynn Abbey
