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Letter "I" » impulses
«Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness.»
«Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
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Compassion
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antitoxin, harmless, impulses, poisonous, relatively
«Agriculture is for living; mind culture is for life. Skills are for shaping material things so that they cater more for the comfort of man; studies are for shaping attitudes, feelings, desires, emotions and impulses of man, so that they may confer more peace, more joy and more fortitude on man.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
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agriculture, attitudes, cater, catered, catering, confer, conferring, confer with, fortitude, impulses, shaping, skills, studies
«And we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead,»
«Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting»
«A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
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Religion
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beliefs, emotional, impulses, lifetime, measured, measure up, moral, rather, received, religious, religious belief, religious beliefs, worth
«All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.»
«I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than the natural state»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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arrive, arrive at, convinced, impulses, natural state, The Natural
«But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal impulses and preferences»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
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deficiency, impulses, individuality, preferences
«CLEANSE your emotions, passions, impulses, attitudes, and reactions. That is the essence of spiritual discipline as laid down in all Faiths.»
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