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"The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community." »William James
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"You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve." »J. K. Rowling
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"Strain every nerve to gain your point." »Cicero
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"A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted." »Helen Rowland
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"Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom." »Mark Twain
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"In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibration of beauty." »Christopher Darlington Morley
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"If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself." »H. L. Mencken
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"Grant us a brief delay; impulse in everything is but a worthless servant." »Caecilius Statius
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"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." »Helen Keller
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"Grant us a brief delay impulse in everything is but a worthless servant." »Caecilius Statius
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"There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others." »Milton R. Sapirstein
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"But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!" »Friedrich Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Chapter 29
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"It's interesting to think that my ancestors used to live in the trees, like apes, until finally they got the nerve to head out onto the plains, where some were probably hit by cars." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally." »Abraham Lincoln
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"One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict - girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe." »Percival
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"Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies." »Howard Thurman
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"Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory." »Alan Alda
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"Erase fancy; curb impulse; quench desire; let sovereign reason have the mastery." »Marcus Aureluis, Meditations, Book nine
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"He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many foulder in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale." »Johnson
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"If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them 'Hold on'" »Rudyard Kipling
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"Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow." »David Seabury
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"Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis." »Marlon Brando
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"Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." »Vincent van Gogh
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"Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things." »Henry James
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"The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect." »Sam Ewig
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"The pure impulse of dynamic creation is formless and being formless, the creation it gives rise to can assume any and every form." »Kabbalah
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"Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own." »Robert Collier
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"Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control. It is the shaping impulse of America that neither fate nor nature nor the irresistible tides of history, but the work of our own hands, matched to reason and principle, that will determine our destiny. There is pride in that, even arrogance, but there is also experience and truth. In any event, it is the only way we can live." »Robert F. Kennedy, 1966 speech to South African young people
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"We and the cosmos are one. The cosmos is a vast body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The moon is a great gleaming nerve-centre from which we quiver forever. Who knows the power that Saturn has over us or Venus But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time... Now all this is literally true, as men knew in the great past and as they will know again." »D. H. Lawrence
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