"Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not."
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"Often you have to rely on intuition."
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"The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct."
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"It's all complete instinct and intuition, and that's extremely difficult to teach."
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"Logotherapy . . . considers man as a being whose main concern consists in fulfilling a meaning and in actualizing values, rather than in the mere gratification and satisfaction of drives and instincts."
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"I've always kind of done exactly what my instincts said."
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"Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience."
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"Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden."
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"The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts."
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"I have a woman's instinct and it's always a good one."
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"You have to go with your instincts."
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"Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves."
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"I have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I'll have my feelings guide my hands."
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"The instinct of the people is right."
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"The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him."
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"Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable."
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"The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death."
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"Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct."
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"Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened."
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"If obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought."
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