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Malcolm Gladwell
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There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.
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Malcolm Gladwell
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Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.
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Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton
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Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever - and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain.
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PRIOR: _Solomon on the V-of the World,_ Bk. i., Line 231.
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Then vainly the philosopher avers That reason guides our deeds, and instinct theirs. How can we justly different causes frame, When the effects entirely are the same? Instinct and reason how can we divide? 'Tis the fool's ignorance, and the pedant's pride
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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....
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Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin
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The instinct to command others, in its primitive essence, is a carnivorous, altogether bestial and savage instinct. Under the influence of the mental development of man, it takes on a somewhat more ideal form and becomes somewhat ennobled, presenting itself as the instrument of reason and the devoted servant of that abstraction, or political fiction, which is called the public good. But in its essence it remains just as baneful, and it becomes even more so when, with the application of science, it extends its scope and intensifies the power of its action. If there is a devil in history, it is this power principle.
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Hilaire Belloc
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All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.
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Hilaire Belloc
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All men have an instinct for conflict at least, all healthy men.
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Don Marquis
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Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
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Max Eastman
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Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
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Samuel Butler
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To live is like love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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Hector Hugh Munro
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He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
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Karl Kraus
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A man???s jealousy is a social institution; a woman???s prostitution is an instinct.
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Edgar R. Fiedler
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The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
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POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. iii., Line 97.
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Reason raise o'er instinct as you can, In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis man.
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Ben Hogan
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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.
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Sophocles
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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.
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Cicero
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The wise are instructed by reason ordinary minds by experience the stupid, by necessity and brutes by instinct.
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Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what if I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny.
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Samuel Butler
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Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
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John Train
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The herd instinct seems to be the strongest human emotion, one that the race is constantly breeding off as the mavericks are liquidated. Happiness is running with the crowd.
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Wendell Phillips
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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Socrates
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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.
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Benjamin Disraeli
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Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.
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English Proverb
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Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.
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Richard Milhous Nixon
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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.
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Gloria Steinem
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Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true and incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.
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George Santayana
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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.
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John Updike
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Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.
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Henry Louis Mencken
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Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all. Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosiac, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill.
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George Santayana
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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....
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Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
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Morality is herd instinct in the individual.
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Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
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Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.
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Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
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We cannot be too earnest, too persistent, too determined, about living superior to the herd-instinct.
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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.
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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.
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Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.
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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.
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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.
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The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.
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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.
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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
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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.
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"Opportunity plus instinct equals profit." - Larry Niven
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Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.
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"I let my pride override my instinct." Tain
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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.
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"Instinct is often far more reliable than logic."
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"This time let go your consious self and act on instinct." - Obi Wan
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"Killer Instinct" - the best game I've seen
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The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.
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"I may not have an instinct for business." Nog
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Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.
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