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"Your instinct, rather than precision stabbing, is more about just random bludgeoning."

"My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions."

"Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better."

"If you swim with sharks, make sure you have the appetite of a whale."

"You have put yourself at risk to activate your instinctual genius."

"Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form."

"The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason."
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"The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight."

"We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us."

"A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of."

"Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object."

"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."
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