Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering, the barriers against possession not so insurmountable, the urge to accomplish the desire less keen. With some, inhibitions and urges may be neutralized...
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Clarence Darrow
Among peoples who possess a highly developed pugnacious instinct we find the greatest progress in the arts, sciences, social and political organization, commerce and industry. The instinct takes the milder form of rivalry which is the motive force of the great portion of the serious...
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Holly Estil Cunningham
Imagination is the sacred intuition.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
We can learn a lot from animals, if we're prepared to accept that they may just know more about life than what we do.
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Anthony T. Hincks
Oh darling, don't be bitter. It's the first instinct of the weak.
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Sarah Dessen
More Quotes By Charles Darwin
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed...
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for everyone takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness; and when this is done, one path towards error...
We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.
