Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.
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Someone asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do, and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true and incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.
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Then vainly the philosopher avers That reason guides our deeds, and instinct theirs. How can we justly different causes frame, When the effects entirely are the same? Instinct and reason how can we divide? 'Tis the fool's ignorance, and the pedant's pride
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There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.
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Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain.
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Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.. Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest..
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To live is like love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
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The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
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Reason raise o'er instinct as you can, In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis man.
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The ideal condition Would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct But since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach.
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Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
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The herd instinct seems to be the strongest human emotion, one that the race is constantly breeding off as the mavericks are liquidated. Happiness is running with the crowd.
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Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.
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Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all. Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosiac, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill.
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Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
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All men have an instinct for conflict at least, all healthy men.
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The wise are instructed by reason ordinary minds by experience the stupid, by necessity and brutes by instinct.
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I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first.. Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.
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Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.
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Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
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The instinct to command others, in its primitive essence, is a carnivorous, altogether bestial and savage instinct. Under the influence of the mental development of man, it takes on a somewhat more ideal form and becomes somewhat ennobled, presenting itself as the instrument of reason and the devoted servant of that abstraction, or political fiction, which is called the public good. But in its essence it remains just as baneful, and it becomes even more so when, with the application of science, it extends its scope and intensifies the power of its action. If there is a devil in history, it is this power principle.
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