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A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.
Instinct
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
Instinct
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Instinct is the nose of the mind.
Instinct
Madame de Girardin

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Instinct is untaught ability.
Instinct
Alexander Bain

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Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.
Instinct
Friedrich Nietzsche

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It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
Instinct
James Russell Lowell

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The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.
Instinct
Sir William Osler

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun