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#impulse

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The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.


Daniel Bell


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To me, impulsive means foolish. But if a person’s not a little impulsive, they don’t have a pulse. 



Jarod Kintz


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Men are driven by two two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.


Niccolò Machiavelli


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Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk.


Robert Benchley


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You know you love something if you're willing to die for it, and you know it means nothing if you walk away from that which is dying.


Anthony Liccione


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She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister.


Bill Griffith


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I don't think of sex as a self-destructive impulse.


Thom Gunn


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Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.


Augustus Hare


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Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.


Henry S. Haskins


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Anticipation of movement, through muscular innervation and memory, by its retention of nerve impulse images, extend the present to the limit of a second or so.


John Desmond Bernal


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