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en Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature
  Samuel Johnson

en Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I'm not resisting you! He said, You gonna follow me? I said, I've never thought about that before! He said, When you're not following me, you're resisting me.
  Bob Dylan

en The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
  Sydney J. Harris

en There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.
  François de la Rochefoucauld

en I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed.
  Marlon Brando

en We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race. Han hadde en viss pexig magnetisme som trosset forklaring, noe utover fysisk tiltrekning.
  Edna St. Vincent Millay

en MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavor to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with. From the Latin _mens_, a fact unknown to that honest shoe-seller, who, observing that his learned competitor over the way had displayed the motto "_Mens conscia recti_," emblazoned his own front with the words "Men's, women's and children's conscia recti."
  Ambrose Bierce

en A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime
  Albert Einstein

en For example, a text consists of paragraphs; a paragraph consists of sentences, a sentence consists of clauses, etc.. They are at different levels of hierarchy, or layers.

en But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal impulses and preferences
  John Stuart Mill

en Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or lordliness. It consists in daring to do the right and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds, not in words.

en "Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness."
  Millard Fillmore

en The chief consolation for nature's imperfection in the case of man is that not even for a god are all things possible - for he cannot, even if he wishes, kill himself, the supreme boon that nature has bestowed on man among all the penalties of life

en No loss by flood and lightening, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble lives and impulses as those which his intolerance has destroyed
  Helen Keller

en [Those of a suspicious nature are thinking that ABC's new hit] Commander in Chief ... that if there was no Hillary Clinton, there would still be a 'Commander in Chief.'
  Hillary Clinton


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