#pulse

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

— Van Wyck Brooks

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Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant. ↗

— Caecilius Statius

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The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing. ↗

— Richard Wright

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A first impulse was never a crime. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

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Everyone has the impulse to be elite. ↗

— Alfre Woodard

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

— Baltasar Gracian

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I don't think of sex as a self-destructive impulse. ↗

— Thom Gunn

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