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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

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Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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Everything at some point has been declared the root of all evil. ↗

— Criss Jami

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Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own. ↗

— Robert Collier

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Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it. ↗

— Tom Flynn

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The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment. ↗

— Daniel Bell

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I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America. ↗

— Pat Benatar

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A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the future will, because of the very opportunities and materials it will have at its command, need an infinitely stronger formative impulse than it does now. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

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Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity. ↗

— Marlon Brando

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