#pulse

A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement. ↗

— Justin Winsor

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Everyone has the impulse to be elite. ↗

— Alfre Woodard

#everyone #impulse

Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage. ↗

— Arthur Godfrey

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A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

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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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The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

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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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