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"A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy."
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"Your instinct, rather than precision stabbing, is more about just random bludgeoning."
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"The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves."
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"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."
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"Style is primarily a matter of instinct."
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"A 'biomass' man reaction comes from reflexes and instinct."
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"Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better."
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"If you swim with sharks, make sure you have the appetite of a whale."
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"You have put yourself at risk to activate your instinctual genius."
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"It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel."
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"Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form."
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"Defying the Dark One no matter the length of his shadow. We will live, that defiance said. We will love and we will hope."
Strength


"He hadn't asked to become a leader, but did that absolve him of responsibility? People needed him. The world needed him. And, with an understanding that cooled in him like molten rock forming into a shape, he realized that he wanted to lead. If someone had to be lord of these people, he wanted to do it himself. Because doing it yourself was the only way to see that it was done right."
Growth


"Death comes to us all, we can only choose how to face it when it comes."
Mortality


"Nynaeve shook her head. She supposed it was one way to find money for the poor. Simply rob anyone who was not poor. Of course, that would just make everyone poor in the end, but it might work for a time."
Society


"I'm not a clever man, but I'm willing to listen to people who are, and I think you are. Just don't try poking me in the direction you want me to go. I don't like that Master Balwer."
Strategy


"They were the sort who berated a man for meddling and chased him away, then berated him again for not being there when he was needed. Not that they would admit he was needed, even then, not them. Raise a hand to help and you were interfering, do nothing and you were an un-trustworthy wastrel."
Criticism


"I do not like odd things until I can understand them."
Perception


"Let most men have a finger and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan cheif have a finger and he will have the entire arm."
Control


"Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes."
Humor


"If you don't know everything, you must go on with what you do know."
Wisdom
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