#impulses

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

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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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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses. ↗

— Van Wyck Brooks

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So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

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Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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The three-year-old who lies about taking a cookie isn't really a liar after all. He simply can't control his impulses. He then convinces himself of a new truth and, eager for your approval, reports the version that he knows will make you happy. ↗

— Cathy Rindner Tempelsman

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I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager. ↗

— Eugene Jarvis

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My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect. ↗

— Ellen Willis

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