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There is no such thing as a homosexual or a heterosexual person. There are only homo- or heterosexual acts. Most people are a mixture of impulses if not practices. ↗

— Gore Vidal

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At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

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There's always been a religious strain in me. I can't get rid of it. I don't want to get rid of it. I'm not involved in a church, but I understand that impulse to believe in something that's never going to betray you. ↗

— Ruth Wilson

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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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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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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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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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