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• All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

  Abraham Maslow

  Change, Baby, Growth

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• Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Business, Goal, Advertising

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• Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Suicide, Weapons, Normal

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• We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Race, Self, Our Actions

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• One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.

  Henry Miller

  Reason Why, Reason, Stifling

  Henry Miller (1969). “The Books in My Life”, p.120, New Directions Publishing

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• I wanted to show off - a simple impulse or drive; in much the same way as some kids wanted to play football, I wanted to show off. Not complicated in that sense, very natural; it just depends on how you want to show off.

  Dylan Moran

  Football, Kids, Simple

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• If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!

  Jack Nicholson

  Two, Might, Matter

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• All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory impulses or shades of ambiguity. It's fun, and it's fun because it's hard.

  Edward Norton

  Fun, Character, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you're young, you don't really know quite what you're aiming at. You're very impulsive and acting on impulse, which is very important and valuable. But you're kind of swimming in a blind sea. When you get older, you have more of a sense of direction.

  Sinead O'Connor

  Swimming, Sea, Important

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• I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Instinct

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• Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.

  Marquis de Sade

  Nature, Law, Perfect

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• The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

  George Santayana

  Use, Conversation, Primaries

  George Santayana (1937). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.

  Franz Schubert

  Men, Two, Brain

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• More than anything that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing.

  Patti Smith

  Taken, Writing, Mean

  "The Saturday interview: Patti Smith". Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2011.

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• The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the tools to do a painting like that yourself, but in doing the work, Pollock shares with you the moment of creative impulse that drove him to do that work.

  Patti Smith

  Artist, Giving, Creative

  "Patti Smith on Art". Interview with Anthony DeCurtis, www.pbs.org. December 30, 2009.

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• Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Happiness, Hope, Gratitude

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.637, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Love, Inspirational, Law

  Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “The English Writings of Rabindranath Tagore: A miscellany”, p.34, Sahitya Akademi

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• Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.

  Dylan Thomas

  Party, Thinking, Needs

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• 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.

  Gore Vidal

  Practice, People, Literature

  Gore Vidal (1990). “At home: essays, 1982-1988”, Vintage

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• 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.

  Elie Wiesel

  Inspirational, Life, Truth

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “The Fifth Son: A novel”, p.54, Schocken

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• The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.

  Frances Wright

  Selfish, Stupid, Heart

  Frances Wright (1850). “Fanny Wright Unmasked by Her Own Pen: Explanatory Notes, Respecting the Nature and Objects of the Institution of Nashoba, and of the Principles Upon Which It Is Founded”, p.5

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• Religion begins in story. Yes, it does, because religion is an attempt to make sense of what is incomprehensible to us, what is inexplicable, what is awe-inspiring, what is frightening, what moves us to great wonder, and so on. That is the religious impulse, and it is part of our psychological makeup -- of everyone's psychological makeup.

  Philip Pullman

  Religious, Moving, Makeup

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• The odor of bowel wind is known to every human, but the fragrance of book glue has crossed only a fraction of mortal nostrils. And yet it behooves us not to judge the unlettered too harshly. We must stay the impulse to write CHUCKLEHEAD above their doors and carve DOLT upon their tombstones.

  James K. Morrow

  Tombstone, Book, Writing

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• You see, gentlemen, reason is an excellent thing, there’s no disputing that, but reason is nothing but reason and satisfies only the rational side of man’s nature, while will is a manifestation of the whole life, that is, of the whole human life including reason and all the impulses. And although our life, in this manifestation of it, is often worthless, yet it is life and not simply extracting square roots.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Squares, Roots

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• Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art.

  John F. Kennedy

  Art, Creativity, Roots

  John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Magnum Photos, inc, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.) (1962). “Creative America”

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