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What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedienc

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

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