"I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation." — Julian Barnes

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• My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put… — Russell Baker
• To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general,… — Mikhail Bakunin
• I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason. — Stanley Baldwin
• Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its… — Honore de Balzac
• I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw… — Kim Basinger
• To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature. — Max Beerbohm
• Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which… — Max Beerbohm
• Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and… — Henri Bergson
• Throughout my career I have been talked out of things I wanted to do, and when I look back, I… — Halle Berry
• Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not… — Mortimer Adler
• Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. — Josh Billings
• As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.… — Bono

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