#instinct

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

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She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things. ↗

— Paul Begala

#answer #being #citizen #clinton #his

But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do. ↗

— Cheryl Tiegs

#doing #first #i #instinct #jealousy

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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And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment. ↗

— Bill Brandt

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And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human. ↗

— William Gibson

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I also learned to be more confident, to trust my instincts more. ↗

— Lindsey Buckingham

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Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men. ↗

— Adam Ferguson

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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray. ↗

— William Cowper

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