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instinct
«Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.»
«Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do»
Author: Lillian Hellman
(Playwright)
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Decision
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decisions, instinct, particularly, sleepy
«Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world.»
Author: Rebecca Harding Davis
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best man, common good, common man, Down These Mean Streets, For any, good enough, good weather, hero, inevitability, instinct, Mean Streets, phrase, tarnished, The Best Man, unusual, weathered
«Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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collective, ferocity, herd, herding, instinct, in regard to, members, produce, regarded, regard as, stimulate, stimulated, stimulates, tended, tended to, tending, tends, tends to, The Herd
«Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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Sex
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civilize, civilized, civilizes, civilizing, fully, instinct, satisfy, sexual, sexual love
«Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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Common sense,
Genius
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common sense, instinct
«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
(Artist, Painter)
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Art
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application, beyond measure, canon, canons, conceive, instinct, limbs, measuring, The Brain
«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»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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Instinct
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Animal World, carries, instinct, neck, rein, reined, reins, The Animal, The Traveler, throws, traveler, trusts