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“There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of manmade evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf.”
Neil Gaiman
Dogs
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Evolution
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Nature
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Instinct
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Simplicity
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“Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.”
Michel de Montaigne
Human Nature
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Inhumanity
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Instinct
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Critique
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Philosophy
3.
“Other animals ran only when they had a reason, but the horse would run for no reason whatever, as if to run out of his own skin.”
Rabindranath Tagore
Freedom
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Instinct
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Horse
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Running
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Unreasoned Joy
4.
“We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Intuition
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Future
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Self-knowledge
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Human Nature
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Instinct
5.
“A wondrous subtle thing is love, for here were we two, who had never seen each other before that day, between whom no word or even look of affection had ever passed, and yet now in an hour of trouble our hands instinctively sought for each other.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Love
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Instinct
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Connection
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Adversity
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Human Nature
6.
“Dogs don't make mistakes.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Dogs
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Instinct
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Reliability
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Animal Behavior
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Trust
7.
“It was easier to know it than to explain why I knew it.”
Arthur Conan Doyle
Intuition
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Knowledge
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Explanation
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Instinct
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Unconscious Understanding
8.
“An immortal instinct deep within the spirit of man is thus plainly a sense of the Beautiful.”
Edgar Allan Poe
Beauty
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Instinct
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Divinity
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Philosophical Insight
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Artistic Truth
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Spiritual Essence
9.
“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.”
William Blake
Nature
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Human Relations
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Instinct
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Philosophical Insight
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Poetic Metaphor
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Social Observation
10.
“For instinct dictates our duty and the intellect supplies us with pretexts for evading it.”
Marcel Proust
Instinct
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Duty
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Intellect
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Pretexts
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Moral Conflict
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Logical Excuses
11.
“Obeying is like eating and drinking. There’s nothing like it if you’ve been without it for too long.”
Hermann Hesse
Obedience
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Necessity
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Instinct
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Human Nature
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Survival Needs
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Natural Behavior
12.
“Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned.”
Orson Scott Card
Evolution
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Violence
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Instinct
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Survival
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Human Nature
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Primal Behavior
13.
“Nature pulls one way and human nature another.”
E.M. Forster
Nature
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Human Nature
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Conflict
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Balance
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Instinct
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Contradiction
14.
“Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.”
E.M. Forster
Speech
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Criticism
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Thought
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Creation
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Instinct
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Expression
15.
“It is this admirable and immortal instinct for beauty which causes us to regard the earth and its spectacles as a glimpse, a correspondence of the beyond.”
Charles Baudelaire
Immortal Beauty
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Earthly Spectacles
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Beyond Glimpse
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Instinct
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Beauty
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Correspondence
16.
“When I was learning to creep, my mother set me down on the beach to see what I thought of it. I crawled straight for the coming wave and was just through the wall of green when she caught my heels.”
Sylvia Plath
Childhood
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Instinct
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Vulnerability
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Risk
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Nature
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Growth
17.
“Love whom you will but marry your own kind was a dictum amounting to instinct within her.”
Harper Lee
Marriage Expectations
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Family Values
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Instinct
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Compatibility
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Social Norms
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Tradition
18.
“She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love
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Natural Talent
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Relationships
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Belief
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Emotion
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Instinct
19.
“The mother’s love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence.”
George Eliot
Motherhood
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Love
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Sensibility
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Emotion
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Nurturing
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Instinct
20.
“A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when he sees a camel.”
George Eliot
Superstition Belief
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Traditional Beliefs
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Superstitious Instinct
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Belief
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Beliefs
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Instinct
21.
“Vengeance on a dumb brute!” cried Starbuck, “that simply smote thee from blindest instinct! Madness! To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous.”
Herman Melville
Dumb Vengeance
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Starbuck Reason
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Blind Instinct
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Vengeance
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Reason
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Instinct
22.
“When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.”
Herman Melville
Survival Instincts
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Wild Beasts
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Natural Response
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Survival
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Wild
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Instinct
23.
“What happens if you stick at something long enough, and study it for so long, you have a different kind of intelligence. It's not an intellectual thing. It's almost like an animal intelligence. I call it our form of instinct, almost how a lion knows exactly where its prey is.”
Robert Greene
Instinctual Intelligence
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Long-term Dedication
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Unique Knowledge
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Instinct
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Focus
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Dedication
24.
“There are times in all of our lives when a reliance on gut or intuition just seems more appropriate—when a particular course of action just feels right. And interestingly I’ve discovered it’s in facing life’s most important decisions that intuition seems the most indispensable to getting it right.”
Tim Cook
Gut Instinct
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Intuitive Decisions
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Personal Experience
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Instinct
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Decisions
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Experience
25.
“Other research has shown that in the first few milliseconds of our perceiving something we not only unconsciously comprehend what it is, but decide whether we like it or not; the “cognitive unconscious” presents our awareness with not just the identity of what we see, but an opinion about it. Our emotions have a mind of their own, one which can hold views quite independently of our rational mind.”
Daniel Goleman
Cognitive Response
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Emotional Reaction
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Brain Patterns
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Instinct
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Decision
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Thought
26.
“The instinct of self-preservation is the first law of nature; your strongest instinct is the most potent of all auto-suggestions.”
Joseph Murphy
Self-Preservation Instinct
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Auto-Suggestions
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Natural Law
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Instinct
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Power
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Survival
27.
“It is just man’s turning away from instinct – his opposing himself to instinct – that creates consciousness. Instinct is nature and seeks to perpetuate nature; while consciousness can only seek culture or its denial.”
Carl Jung
Consciousness Instinct
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Nature Denial
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Instinct Culture
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Consciousness
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Instinct
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Nature
28.
“Aviation is the most spectacular expression of the sexual instinct.”
Salvador Dali
Aviation Instinct
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Spectacular Expression
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Aviation
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Instinct
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Expression
,
Spectacle
29.
“Don’t love her too much. Don’t. Maybe it’s still in her the thing that makes it all right to kill her children. I have to tell her. I have to protect her.”
Toni Morrison
Parental Love
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Emotional Conflict
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Protective Instinct
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Love
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Conflict
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Instinct
30.
“Human Nature Baby, grab it and growl.”
Stephen King
Human Nature
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Raw Emotion
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Expression Power
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Instinct
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Passion
,
Survival
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