#instinctive

It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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The properties which differentiate living matter from any kind of inorganic imitation may be instinctively felt, but can hardly be formulated without expert knowledge. ↗

— Oliver Joseph Lodge

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As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person. ↗

— Kim Novak

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Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them. ↗

— Joseph Rotblat

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What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#after #babies #best #doing #fathers

Even if you don't mind Romneycare, or the abortion flip-flop, or any of the rest, there's a more basic problem: He's not a natural campaigner, and on the stump he instinctively recoils from any personal connection with the voters. ↗

— Mark Steyn

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I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive. ↗

— F. Murray Abraham

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Most mothers are instinctive philosophers. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

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Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. ↗

— Henry R. Luce

#any #calculation #continual #dealing #exercise

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards. ↗

— George Orwell

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