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"A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct."
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"You have put yourself at risk to activate your instinctual genius."
"There must be instinct on d inside to have an increase on d outside."
"The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat."
"If you swim with sharks, make sure you have the appetite of a whale."
"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."
"A man falling off a cliff to certain death will stretch out a hand even to his worst enemy."
"My body either likes you or it doesn't. And, I trust my body but I can't assuredly tell you why."
"I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!"
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"Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it."
"If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point."
"People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf."
"The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people."
"If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval."
"Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents."
"Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music."
"And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will."
"The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people."
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