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Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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I have a suicide impulse. ↗

— Hal Holbrook

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When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

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Dark impulses certainly exist in me and, I think, in most people. ↗

— Stephen Hopkins

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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. ↗

— Helen Keller

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Christ had given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant. They found that out as they followed the impulse of the Spirit. ↗

— Roland Allen

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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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I've always had this impulse to be destructive. ↗

— Russell Brand

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Well, we know that people in Australia love the idea of both Impulse and Virgin Blue getting up and adding a bit of competition, and it's fun to be able to deliver it. ↗

— Richard Branson

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

— Van Wyck Brooks

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