#impulse

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

— Karl A. Menninger

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If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

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Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands. ↗

— Brenda Ueland

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The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people. ↗

— Kenneth Clark

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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community. ↗

— William James

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Normally, the same strange impulse which brings a crowd to an accident is present in the reaction to a concert in which something goes wrong. ↗

— Lara St. John

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If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors. ↗

— Hans Kung

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Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the material things which it has given us, but also in that it guides our spirit. ↗

— Polykarp Kusch

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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

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The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it. ↗

— Robert Coover

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