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• I loved being asked 2,000 questions a day, storyboarding every move, knowing as though by instinct exactly where the camera had to be, because it was my story.

  Richard E. Grant

  Moving, Knowing, Cameras

  "Memories of mischief", www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2005.

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• Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why?

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Men, Long, Enough

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1980). “A Krutch omnibus: forty years of social and literary criticism”, William Morrow &Company

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• I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.

  George Orwell

  Trying, Hard, Whole Truth

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.315, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions.

  George Santayana

  Fighting, Men, Opposites

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.55, 谷月社

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• The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Appreciation, Acquisition, Facts

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.111, Random House

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• A person born with an instinct for poverty.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Poetry, Poverty, Born

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Woman is determined not by her hormones or by mysterious instincts, but by the manner in which her body and her relation to the world are modified through the action of others than herself.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Women, World, Body

  Simone de Beauvoir (1953). “The second sex”, Vintage

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• Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Respect, Mean, Desire

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• Faith is certitude without proofs ... Faith is a sentiment, for it is a hope; it is an instinct, for it precedes all outward instruction.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Faith, Proof, Instruction

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• Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.

  Arnold Bennett

  Mother, Sex, Joy

  Arnold Bennett (1935). “The journal of Arnold Bennett”, Viking Press

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• If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a hundred miles from shore it's different. Sea gulls have a highly developed instinct for self-preservation on land but at sea they're very cocky.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Lying, Cocky, Squares

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• The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

  Karl Abraham

  Able, Assault, Mania

  Karl Abraham (1988). “Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis”, p.137, Karnac Books

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• Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished.

  Karl Abraham

  Normal, Patient, States

  Karl Abraham (1988). “Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, M.D.”

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• I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation.

  Julian Barnes

  Self, Survival, Preservation

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.42, Random House

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• ... engineering is a basic instinct in man, the expression of which is existentially fulfilling.

  Samuel Florman

  Men, Engineering, Expression

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• Money is a sort of instinct. It's a sort of property of nature in a person to make money. It's nothing you do. It's no trick you play. It's a sort of permanent accident of your own nature; once you start, you make money, and you go on. . . But you've got to begin. . . You've got to get in. You can do nothing if you are kept outside. You've got to beat your way in. Once you've done that, you can't help it!

  D. H. Lawrence

  Money, Play, Done

  D. H. Lawrence (2013). “The Essential D.H. Lawrence”, p.1605, Simon and Schuster

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• Earnest is our dog. She senses instantly that something is wrong, and guided by that timeless and unerring nurturing instinct that all female dogs have, she tries to lick my ears off.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Dog, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.38, Ballantine Books

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• Man is still by instinct a predatory animal given to devilish aggression. The discoveries of science have immensely increased productivity of material things. They have increased the standards of living and comfort. They have eliminated infinite drudgery. They have increased leisure. But that gives more time for devilment. The work of science has eliminated much disease and suffering. It has increased the length of life. That, together with increase in productivity, has resulted in vastly increased populations. Also it increased the number of people engaged in devilment.

  Herbert Hoover

  Life, Science, Animal

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• The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernel of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.

  Bertrand Russell

  Adults, Opinion, Sentiments

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• Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.

  Fannie Flagg

  Water, Suffering, Natural Instinct

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• When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.

  Jean-Philippe Rameau

  Morality, Reason, Appeals

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• I trust my instincts.

  Billy Zane

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

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• When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  People, Giving, Charity

  Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) (2015). “Beasts and Super-Beasts”, p.156, Read Books Ltd

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• I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and - very important - knows how to run a business, knows the numbers.

  Millard Drexler

  Running, Numbers, Intuition

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• American culture is probably the least Christian culture that we've ever had because it is so materialistic and it's so full of lies. The whole advertising world is just, it's just intertwined with lies, appealing to the worst of the instincts we have.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Christian, Lying, Culture

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. August 12, 2011.

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