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instincts

«A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.»
«Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.»
«Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.»
«Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.»
Author: Rita Mae Brown (Writer) | About: Creativity | Keywords: creativity, instincts
«And not only did he learn by experience, but instincts long dead became alive again. The domesticated generations fell from him. In vague ways he remembered back to the youth of the breed, to the time the wild dogs ranged in packs through the primeval forest and killed their meat as they ran it down.»
«All that stirring of old instincts which at stated periods drives men out from the sounding cities to forest and plain to kill things by chemically propelled leaden pellets, the blood lust, the joy to kill--all this was Buck's, only it was infinitely more intimate. He was ranging at the head of the pack, running the wild thing down, the living meat, to kill with his own teeth and wash his muzzle to the eyes in warm blood.»
«A dramatist is a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom.»
«But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.»
«Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.»
«A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us»