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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.
Sydney J. Harris
I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.
Jim Elliot
If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
Hans Kung
Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.
Daniel Goleman
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Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.
William Moulton Marston 
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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.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness.
Marshall McLuhan
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I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.
Eugene Jarvis
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So, it becomes an exercise in futility if you write something that does not express the film as the director wishes. It's still their ball game. It's their show. I think any successful composer learns how to dance around the director's impulses.
Danny Elfman
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If we dismiss from our minds the prejudice we may have against the Indians we shall be able to more clearly understand the impulses that govern both races.
Nelson A. Miles
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At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants.
Egon Schiele
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There are two contrary impulses which govern this man's brain-the one sane, and the other eccentric. They alternate at regular intervals.
Franz Schubert
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Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them.
Mason Cooley
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Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.
William J. Clinton
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Popular Impulses Authors
Mason CooleyAlbert EinsteinEric HofferHenry MillerSigmund FreudMarshall McLuhanGore VidalGustav MahlerSydney J. HarrisNathaniel HawthorneWilliam J. ClintonDanny ElfmanElie WieselWalter BenjaminLindsey Buckingham
Franz SchubertHans KungDaniel GolemanHans HofmannStephen HopkinsCharles Maurice de TalleyrandNelson A. MilesFrancis WrightEdna St. Vincent MillayJack LevineJudy ChicagoVan Wyck BrooksJim ElliotEgon SchieleKenneth Clark
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