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A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us. - Ralph W

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

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

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

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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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