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With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper
Thorstein Veblen
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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
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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 ca
George Santayana
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To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other`s looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions
George Santayana
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God of our fathers, who by land and sea have ever lead us to victory, please continue your inspiring guidance in this the greatest of all conflicts. Strengthen my soul so that the weakening instinct of self-preservation, which besets all of us in battle, ...
General George S. Patton
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The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
Edgar R. Fiedler
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
Anatole France
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Instinct is untaught ability
Alexander Bain
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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.
Carl Gustav Jung
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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.
Carl Gustav Jung
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Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
Lord Byron
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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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Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse`s neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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.
Louisa May Alcott
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Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
George Shaw
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The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.
Oscar Wilde
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Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
Oscar Wilde
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Men always want to be a woman`s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man`s last romance.
Oscar Wilde
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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
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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
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By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solitary; hence the need of religion and morality to reinforce self-interest
Bertrand Russell
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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.
Anais Nin
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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.
Ben Hogan
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I think acting is a mixture of instinct, imagination and inventiveness. All you can learn as an actor is basic technique.
Christopher Lee
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[1998] "I create challenges by the roles I take. I`m sort of proud of the fact that I`m not really typecast. People are always trying to get a handle on what you do. With me either it`s my sex trilogy - Fatal Attraction (1987), Basic Instinct (1992) and D...
Michael Douglas
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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.
Laurence Olivier
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[Talking about Basic Instinct 2 (2006)]: "By the time the film is released, I will be 48 and I wanted to do the nudity in a way that`s quite brazen. I wanted her to be very masculine, like a man in a steam room and I wanted the audience to have a moment w...
Sharon Stone
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