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 Max Beerbohm
Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.
I utilise all my spare moments. I've read twenty-seven of the Hundred Best Books. I collect ferns.
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.
