#instinctively

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. ↗

— George Orwell

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In Blow-up I used my head instinctively! ↗

— Michelangelo Antonioni

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I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise? ↗

— Ella Maillart

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Fame is empowering. My mistake was that I thought I would instinctively know how to handle it. But there's no manual, no training course. ↗

— Charlie Sheen

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Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evolutionary baggage which we bring with us to the present day. Evolution has made us rational to a point, but not perfectly so. It has given us emotions, for example, which programme us to override our rational brain and act more instinctively. ↗

— Evan Davis

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I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

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

— Benjamin Spock

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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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