Don Marquis's Quote - Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. – Don Marquis

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Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. - Don Marquis

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. – Don Marquis

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An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience. – Don Marquis

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Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose-petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. – Don Marquis

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Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind. – Don Marquis

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If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery. – Albert Einstein

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Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the purpose is. – Van Hartmann

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The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget. – William Osler

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