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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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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: Whose? – Don Marquis

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

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A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves. – James Russell Lowell

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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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