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• Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

  Edmund Burke

  Passion, Soul, Intuition

  Edmund Burke, John Shebbeare (1776). “An Answer to the Printed Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq; spoken in the House of Commons, April 19, 1774, etc. By John Shebbeare”, p.191

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• Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

  Albert Camus

  Law, Punishment, Intuition

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• A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Support, Intelligence, Intuition

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• Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Bullying, Heart, Safety

  Anna Julia Cooper, Charles C. Lemert, Esme Bhan (1998). “The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters”, p.93, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.

  John Naisbitt

  Wisdom, Data, Intuition

  John Naisbitt (1988). “Re-Inventing the Corporation”, Random House Value Publishing

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• Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

  Wendell Phillips

  Animal, Bravery, Accountability

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• My immediate instinct when faced with the questions from The Mail on Sunday ten days ago was to protect my family's privacy and particularly my son in his first term at university, living away from home.

  Cherie Blair

  Home, Sunday, Son

  "'Maybe I should have asked more questions'". The Times, December 11, 2002.

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• Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.

  Blaise Pascal

  Looks, Teach

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• Trust your own instincts, go inside, follow your heart. Right from the start. go ahead and stand up for what you believe in. As I've learned, that's the path to happiness.

  Lesley Ann Warren

  Believe, Heart, Path

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

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• All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

  Alexis Carrel

  Greatness, Men, Intuition

  "Nava-Vēda: God and Man" by M. B. Raja Rao, p. 229, 1968.

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• The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Animal, Totems, Mankind

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Centaur Classics)”, p.107, D. H. Lawrence

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• When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

  Pat Riley

  Teamwork, Effort, Decision

  Pat Riley (1993). “Winner Within Success”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• For the spiritual being, intuition is far more than a hunch. It is viewed as guidance or as God talking, and this inner insight is never taken lightly or ignored.

  Wayne Dyer

  Spiritual, Taken, Talking

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• Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation is the same as in the life of the individual. Pessimism kills the instinct that urges men to struggle against poverty, ignorance and crime, and dries up all the fountains of joy in the world.

  Helen Keller

  Struggle, Moving, Twilight

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.106, Courier Corporation

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• A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Good Man, Way

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• What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.

  Finley Peter Dunne

  Marriage, Wife, Natural

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• The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.

  William James

  Wisdom, Men, Rights

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.288, Library of America

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• Fear is an instinct, like hunger or anger. We need it to help us survive, and it is nothing to be ashamed of. It lets us know whether we should fight or flee.

  David Clement-Davies

  Fighting, Needs, Helping

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• Human beings are born with the instinct to express themselves through movement. Even before he could communicate with words, primitive man was dancing to the beat of his own heart.

  Bob Fosse

  Dance, Heart, Men

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• But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.

  Nikola Tesla

  Objectivity, Effort, Brain

  Nikola Tesla (2013). “The Nikola Tesla Treasury”, p.641, Simon and Schuster

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• Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

  Blaise Pascal

  Nature, Men, Two

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• There is no instinct like that of the heart.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Heart, Intuition

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• I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Inspirational, Strength

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• Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

  Bertrand Russell

  Xenophobia, Fear, Racism

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.70, Routledge

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