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The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
Photography
Walter Benjamin

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The narrative impulse is always with us; we couldn't imagine ourselves through a day without it.
Fiction
Robert Coover

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
Action
Albert Einstein

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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Achievement
Vincent Van Gogh

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Let the first impulse pass, wait for the second.
Love
Baltasar Gracian

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This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
Progress
Nathaniel Hawthorne

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One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Desire
Helen Keller

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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.
Marriage
H. L. Mencken

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Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!
Punishment
Friedrich Nietzsche

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What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
Reason
Ovid

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Character is the impulse reined down into steady continuance.
Character
Charles H. Parkhurst

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The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.
Conversation
George Santayana

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While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.
Mind
Terence

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun