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		I believed the people had a true instinct in most matters of government when left alone. That they were not swayed, as specially favoured individuals were, by personal interest, but rather by a sense of what best served the common good. That they recognized the truth when it was put before them, and that a leader can guide so long as he kept to the right lines. I did not think it was a mark of leadership to try to make the people do what one wanted them to do.
	
	  Mackenzie King Mackenzie King
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		If you're drawing a Western town, you can duplicate that Western town from instinct alone. Some artists may take it from other illustrations or duplicate what you've drawn, but it will never have that gut reality that's instinctive in the artist.
	
	  Jack Kirby Jack Kirby
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		It's amazing how sudden the effect is - it must be the result of a deep atavistic mating urge buried inside us. A glance and you think: 'Yes, this is the one, this one is right for me.' Every instinct in your body seems to sing in unison.
	
	  William Boyd William Boyd
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		I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and - very important - knows how to run a business, knows the numbers.
	
	  Mickey Drexler Mickey Drexler
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		To write honestly and with conviction anything about the migration of birds, one should oneself have migrated. Somehow or other we should dehumanize ourselves, feel the feel of feathers on our body and wind in our wings, and finally know what it is to leave abundance and safety and daylight and yield to a compelling instinct, age-old, seeming at the time quite devoid of reason and object.
	
	  William Beebe William Beebe
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		In martial arts, the way that they train really does channel that killer instinct. We used to put motorcycle helmets on and go full force at each other with these sticks to train.
	
	  Jose Pablo Cantillo Jose Pablo Cantillo
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		Don't be bitter and mean 'couse you don’t fit in, it’s a GIFT. Look at you. you’ve got your individuality, you don’t have the herd instinct, you can read Neitzsche and understand it. Only dumb people are happy.
	
	  Courtney Love Courtney Love
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		My life isn’t theories and formulae. It’s part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I’ve absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyone… from my mother, from training as a ballet dancer, from Vogue magazine, from the laws of life and health and nature.
	
	  Audrey Hepburn Audrey Hepburn
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		I don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct.
	
	  Tom Stoppard Tom Stoppard
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		My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think.
	
	  Noel Gallagher
			
			
				Oasis Noel Gallagher
			
			
				Oasis
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		When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.
	
	  Jean Philippe Rameau Jean Philippe Rameau
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		There is no thing we cannot overcome Say not thy evil instinct is inherited, Or that some trait inborn makes thy whole life forlorn, And calls down punishment that is not merited.
	
	  Ella Wheeler Wilcox Ella Wheeler Wilcox