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• The vampire craze is kind of fascinating. We're interested in the idea of immorality and I think we're drawn to people or creatures who can give in to those base impulses and just be bad and not feel bad about it.

  Benjamin Walker

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters.

  Mike White

  Character, Compassion, Trying

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• The body comes and goes. This life, my friend, will come and go. It is a fleeting moment, an impulse in an eternal reality.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reality, Fleeting, Body

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• I have often been reminded of the wild duck that came down on migration into a barnyard and liked it so well that he stayed there. In the fall his erstwhile companions passed overhead and his first impulse was to rise and join them, but he had fed too well and could rise no higher than the eaves of the barn. The day came when his old fellow travelers could pass overhead without his even hearing their call. I have seen men and women who once mounted up with wings like eagles but are now content to live in the barnyard of this world.

  Vance Havner

  Christian, Fall, Men

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• Don't Wait! Start on your dreams, your impulses, your longings, your special occasions today. Because this is your moment.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Motivational, Dream, Waiting

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• Space and time, not proteins and neurons, hold the answer to the problem of consciousness. When we consider the nerve impulses entering the brain, we realize that they are not woven together automatically, any more than the information is inside a computer.

  Robert Lanza

  Space, Brain, Together

  "Robert Lanza doesn't seem to be kidding" by Adam Rogers, www.wired.com. March 08, 2007.

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• Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But when he merges his person into an organizational structure, a new creature replaces autonomous man, unhindered by the limitations of individual morality, freed of humane inhibition, mindful only of the sanctions of authority.

  Stanley Milgram

  Men, Flow, Degrees

  "Obedience to Authority : An Experimental View". Book by Stanley Milgram, p. 188, 1974.

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• At the heart of the impulse to tell stories is a mystery so profound.

  Dennis Covington

  Heart, Profound, Stories

  Dennis Covington (2009). “Salvation on Sand Mountain: Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia”, p.174, Da Capo Press

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• The world that we must seek is a world in which the creative spirit is alive, in which life is an adventure full of joy and hope, based rather upon the impulse to construct than upon the desire to retain what we possess or to seize what is possessed by others.

  Bertrand Russell

  Adventure, Creative, Joy

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Roads to Freedom”, p.154, Routledge

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• The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.

  Criss Jami

  Ideas, Week, Incidents

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.125, Criss Jami

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• Joy and growth come from following our deepest impulses, however foolish they may seem to some, or dangerous, and even though the apparent outcome may be defeat.

  A. J. Muste

  Joy, Growth, May

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• Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.

  Zoe Kazan

  Writing, Down And, Force

  "The Hot Seat: Ruby Sparks' Zoe Kazan". Interview with Amy Plitt, www.timeout.com. July 15 2012.

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• These days it seems the lyric impulse, so seemingly fragile, comes in for a lot of abuse-or simply a lot of mistrust. What's it for, anyway, in this hard-edged, worried world? Into this cultural uncertainty Gregory Orr's spirited meditation on the surprisingly tensile strength of poetry in the face of profound suffering and grief presents a welcome fresh view of the ancient human instinct to cry out and to praise.

  Patricia Hampl

  Grief, Views, Profound

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• Some friends of mine who are actors feel directing shuts them down and kills all their impulses, but the worst thing for me is if I feel a director hasn't noticed.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Actors, Down And, Directors

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• Even if Zuma was to develop the authoritarian impulses of a Mugabe, he would be checked - not least by his own party, which set a continental precedent by ousting Thabo Mbeki in 2007, after it felt he had outstayed his welcome by seeking a third term as party president. The ANC appears to have set itself against that deathtrap of African democracy: the ruler for life.

  Mark Gevisser

  Party, Zuma, President

  "South Africa: beyond a one-party state" by Mark Gevisser, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2009.

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• A poet feels the impulse to create a work of art when the passive awe provoked by an event is transformed into a desire to express that awe in a rite of worship.

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Creativity, Desire

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• He who does not meditate acts as one who never looks into the mirror and so does not bother to put himself in order, since he can be dirty without knowing it. The person who meditates and turns his thoughts to God who is the mirror of the soul, seeks to know his defects and tries to correct them, moderates himself in his impulses and puts his conscience in order.

  Pio of Pietrelcina

  Dirty, Knowing, Mirrors

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• As a kid I never had the impulse to climb anything. I think that most kids who live in small towns or rural areas outside of the city, that's what they do - climb walls, or trees, or whatever. To me, it was more dance classes and not being very boyish.

  Jamie Bell

  Wall, Kids, Thinking

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Evil, Our Actions, Goodness

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• The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak hate not wickedness but weakness; and one instance of their hatred of weakness is hatred of self. All the passionate pursuits of the weak are in some degree a striving to escape, blur, or disguise an unwanted self. It is a striving shot through with malice, envy, self-deception, and a host of petty impulses; yet it often culminates in superb achievements.

  Eric Hoffer

  Hate, Spring, Sacrifice

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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• The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to sacrifice the self and a willingness to dissolve it by losing one's individual distinctness in a compact collective whole.

  Eric Hoffer

  Sacrifice, Self, Society

  Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

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• The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse.

  William James

  Useless, Lovers, Thinker

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• The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.

  George Orwell

  Writing, Political, Historical

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• It is a little remarkable, that - though disinclined to talk overmuch of myself and my affairs at the fireside, and to my personal friends - an autobiographical impulse should twice in my life have taken possession of me, in addressing the public.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Book, Taken, Littles

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Karin Jacobson (2004). “CliffsComplete The Scarlet Letter”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Artist submits from day to day to the fatal rhythm of the impulses of the universal world which encloses him, continual centre of sensations, always pliant, hypnotized by the marvels of nature which he loves, he scrutinizes. His eyes, like his soul, are in perpetual communion with the most fortuitous of phenomena.

  Odilon Redon

  Eye, Artist, Soul

  Michael Wilson, Odilon Redon (1978). “Nature and Imagination: The Work of Odilon Redon”, Phaidon Press

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