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impulses

«Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.»
«My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect»
«There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo -- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices.»
«One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.»
«I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed.»
«Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.»
Author: Elie Wiesel (Writer) | Keywords: impulses, precede, surround
«Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses»
Author: Vauvenargues, Marquis de | About: Action | Keywords: impulses
«No loss by flood and lightening, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed»
«So in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride -- the temptation blithely to declare yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong, good and evil.»
«Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature»
Author: Samuel Johnson (Critic, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: impulses, merit

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