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It shouldn't have been a thriller, I can tell you that, it was great to be in a game like this. It was kind of like our first dose of what playoff football is going to be about. We've got to create that killer instinct. We have to be better, and we will be better. – Cam Newton	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
They can do nothing against the survival instinct of the people. – Le Pen	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
From the moment when justice does not conduct an inquiry, does not listen to us ... I am sorry but my instinct is to return to my country where I can tell my story to the courts. – Pascal Fauret	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
As we walked out of the room and walked upstairs, I said, I told him my opinion that I thought he should go but to follow his own instinct. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 8 years ago
All there was was smoke and panic. Half the emergency personnel in the county were here, people were running. (My) first instinct was to get my kids away from the street. – Geoff Haxton	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The thing begins to fire, and it begins to jump and buck all over the place, your first human instinct is for your hands to clamp down, and you clamp down on the trigger, and if the thing has a 32-round magazine ... it starts spraying all over and people get killed. – Steven Howard	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I was just doing my job, it's my instinct to help. – Vernon Lane	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
When you are exposed to this toxic stress, the fight or flight instinct is all you have, whether you’re being attacked by a bear in the woods or your father comes home drunk and screaming at you, these kids can shut down or they can become hypersensitive and ready to fight at the slightest provocation. – Denise Dowd	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
When you are exposed to this toxic stress, the fight or flight instinct is all you have, whether you’re being attacked by a bear in the woods or your father comes home drunk and screaming at you, these kids can shut down or they can become hypersensitive and ready to fight at the slightest provocation. – Denise Dowd	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Mom, you don't have to do the stairs, when it was just him and me, he had an instinct that he knew he had to be helpful. I feel like that must have been such a burden on him. – Kelly Hager	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I'm a no-tolerant mother. Everybody that knows me, know I don't play that, he said, when `I seen you,' he said, `ma, my instinct was to run. – Toya Graham	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Depends which Pacquiao comes, if it's the real religious Pacquiao that comes in and doesn't have the killer instinct he had years ago, I don't think he has a chance. – Gary Shaw	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Part of the challenge of living in this friendly neighborhood is you feel like you don't have to pay attention to it. It's not biting at you every day, and as a result you say to yourself, 'Everything is fine here. Let me go spend time in other places where the fires are burning more intensely,' i understand that instinct, but I think that instinct is misguided because if we develop an even stronger base of cooperation and shared values in this hemisphere, it makes our ability as a collective group of nations even stronger to be able to bring peace and prosperity and stability in the rest of the world. – Barack Obama	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Love is the instinct for creation. If there is no love, there is no humanity. – Debasish Mridha, M.D.	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Our recruiters succeeded in awakening in us the animal instinct that was slumbering there. In magic ceremonies they convinced us that we were invincible, but the reality always showed us that the opposite was true. – Junior Nzita Nsuami	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
When walking into an event, it's human nature to gravitate to our right and move around the room counterclockwise, that's everyone else's instinct too, which is why there's often a logjam by the front door. – Mark Gregory	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
My first instinct as a mother was, where in the world was my baby, where was my son? – Rebekah Gregory	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
My first instinct as a mother was where in the world was my baby, where was my son. – Rebekah Gregory	Found on CNN 9 years ago
The greatest intellectual achievement of men should be not only in understanding the importance of the reason, but to consciously and boldly overthrow it as and when the welfare of others’ warrants it. Why should anybody think about others welfare? This is because the reason’s practical worth is only with respect to others. Instinct is often enough to take care of an individual, but the reason is necessary to meet the societal requirements and also to derive benefits from it. – Thiruman Archunan	added by Thiruman Archunan 9 years ago
Spiritualism exits only for individuals. Reason is born when two men interact; addition of more and more members necessitates the spreading of the reason culminating as culture. Hence a culture is as dynamic as the reason. The nature of the reason is the nature of the spirit within for some and instinct for some others. – Thiruman Archunan	added by Thiruman Archunan 9 years ago
The conscience is a right mix of instinct, reason and culture. The conscience itself is not a truth but it has an ability to access the truth. But the very conscience is assembled only by the reason. – Thiruman Archunan	added by Thiruman Archunan 9 years ago
A man actually has two Gods. The one, created him and the other, he created. Nature is not the first God but the first God exists in and as a part of the nature; a man with the help his reason creates a God against the forces of nature that are perceived to be as threat, hence the second God. The second God is the property of an individual mind that created it. A child has no reason and hence it has no second God; but it has the first God not yet known to it because the fear is not felt by the child! The first God is felt and known due to the fear ingrained in the instinct and the second God is the surrender and prayer brought out by the reason! – Thiruman Archunan	added by Thiruman Archunan 9 years ago
The survival instinct prove that we are alive. (L’instinct de survie - Prouve qu’on est en vie.) – Charles de LEUSSE	added by anonymous 9 years ago
There is no instinct like that of the heart. – George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron	added by anonymous 9 years ago

It shouldn't have been a thriller, I can tell you that, it was great to be in a game like this. It was kind of like our first dose of what playoff football is going to be about. We've got to create that killer instinct. We have to be better, and we will be better.

– Cam Newton

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

They can do nothing against the survival instinct of the people.

– Le Pen

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

From the moment when justice does not conduct an inquiry, does not listen to us ... I am sorry but my instinct is to return to my country where I can tell my story to the courts.

– Pascal Fauret

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

As we walked out of the room and walked upstairs, I said, I told him my opinion that I thought he should go but to follow his own instinct.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
8 years ago

All there was was smoke and panic. Half the emergency personnel in the county were here, people were running. (My) first instinct was to get my kids away from the street.

– Geoff Haxton

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The thing begins to fire, and it begins to jump and buck all over the place, your first human instinct is for your hands to clamp down, and you clamp down on the trigger, and if the thing has a 32-round magazine ... it starts spraying all over and people get killed.

– Steven Howard

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I was just doing my job, it's my instinct to help.

– Vernon Lane

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When you are exposed to this toxic stress, the fight or flight instinct is all you have, whether you’re being attacked by a bear in the woods or your father comes home drunk and screaming at you, these kids can shut down or they can become hypersensitive and ready to fight at the slightest provocation.

– Denise Dowd

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

– Denise Dowd

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Mom, you don't have to do the stairs, when it was just him and me, he had an instinct that he knew he had to be helpful. I feel like that must have been such a burden on him.

– Kelly Hager

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I'm a no-tolerant mother. Everybody that knows me, know I don't play that, he said, when `I seen you,' he said, `ma, my instinct was to run.

– Toya Graham

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Depends which Pacquiao comes, if it's the real religious Pacquiao that comes in and doesn't have the killer instinct he had years ago, I don't think he has a chance.

– Gary Shaw

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Part of the challenge of living in this friendly neighborhood is you feel like you don't have to pay attention to it. It's not biting at you every day, and as a result you say to yourself, 'Everything is fine here. Let me go spend time in other places where the fires are burning more intensely,' i understand that instinct, but I think that instinct is misguided because if we develop an even stronger base of cooperation and shared values in this hemisphere, it makes our ability as a collective group of nations even stronger to be able to bring peace and prosperity and stability in the rest of the world.

– Barack Obama

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Love is the instinct for creation. If there is no love, there is no humanity.

– Debasish Mridha, M.D.

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Our recruiters succeeded in awakening in us the animal instinct that was slumbering there. In magic ceremonies they convinced us that we were invincible, but the reality always showed us that the opposite was true.

– Junior Nzita Nsuami

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

When walking into an event, it's human nature to gravitate to our right and move around the room counterclockwise, that's everyone else's instinct too, which is why there's often a logjam by the front door.

– Mark Gregory

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

My first instinct as a mother was, where in the world was my baby, where was my son?

– Rebekah Gregory

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

My first instinct as a mother was where in the world was my baby, where was my son.

– Rebekah Gregory

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The greatest intellectual achievement of men should be not only in understanding the importance of the reason, but to consciously and boldly overthrow it as and when the welfare of others’ warrants it. Why should anybody think about others welfare? This is because the reason’s practical worth is only with respect to others. Instinct is often enough to take care of an individual, but the reason is necessary to meet the societal requirements and also to derive benefits from it.

– Thiruman Archunan

added by Thiruman Archunan
9 years ago

Spiritualism exits only for individuals. Reason is born when two men interact; addition of more and more members necessitates the spreading of the reason culminating as culture. Hence a culture is as dynamic as the reason. The nature of the reason is the nature of the spirit within for some and instinct for some others.

– Thiruman Archunan

added by Thiruman Archunan
9 years ago

The conscience is a right mix of instinct, reason and culture. The conscience itself is not a truth but it has an ability to access the truth. But the very conscience is assembled only by the reason.

– Thiruman Archunan

added by Thiruman Archunan
9 years ago

A man actually has two Gods. The one, created him and the other, he created. Nature is not the first God but the first God exists in and as a part of the nature; a man with the help his reason creates a God against the forces of nature that are perceived to be as threat, hence the second God. The second God is the property of an individual mind that created it. A child has no reason and hence it has no second God; but it has the first God not yet known to it because the fear is not felt by the child! The first God is felt and known due to the fear ingrained in the instinct and the second God is the surrender and prayer brought out by the reason!

– Thiruman Archunan

added by Thiruman Archunan
9 years ago

The survival instinct prove that we are alive. (L’instinct de survie - Prouve qu’on est en vie.)

– Charles de LEUSSE

added by anonymous
9 years ago

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

– George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron

added by anonymous
9 years ago

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