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"The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat."
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"I had an instinct before and maybe now I don't have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots to hit, where to place the ball, things like that."
"Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's always the bumps that are the most interesting stuff."
"A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story."
"And of course she understood now why her body wanted to run whenever he appeared. It was a correct instinct, for there was nothing to be got from this but sadness."
"You have put yourself at risk to activate your instinctual genius."
"Your instinct, rather than precision stabbing, is more about just random bludgeoning."
"He felt a spasm of excitement because he knew instinctively who it was, or at least knew who it was he wanted it to be, and once you know what it is you want to be true, instinct is a very useful device for enabling you to know that it is."
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"When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered."
"Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy."
"Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?"
"There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings."
"It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives."
"Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism."
"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence."
"Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?"
"The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld."
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