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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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Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything. – Don Marquis

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The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary. – Francis W. Newman

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There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it. – Joseph Addison

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What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life. – Henry David Thoreau

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Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious. – George Bernard Shaw

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