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When iridoid cocktails were applied on the bottom of dishes that were then covered by a punctured plastic cover, cats still exhibited licking and chewing even though they couldn't contact the chemicals directly, this means that licking and chewing is an instinctive behavior elicited by olfactory stimulation of iridoids. – Masao Miyazaki	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It's just instinctive to me, procedure is supposed to serve the people that law exists to serve. – Ruth Bader Ginsburg	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Kimberly Godwin is an instinctive and admired executive whose unique experiences, strengths and strategic vision made Kimberly Godwin the ideal choice to lead the outstanding team at ABC News and build on their incredible success. – Peter Rice	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I am calling you' chosen ones' because you have been chosen in many ways, first, by the temperament and discipline you've lived by, by the creative fires that are inside of you and the instinctive lunges of your desires... You succeeded because of the aid and the love of others that are in your lives, without a doubt. But you have succeeded mostly because you, and you alone, chose to do so. – Tom Hanks	Found on CNN 3 years ago
My interpretation of acting at the time, because I didn't know how to build a character, was pure energy, people call me an instinctive actor. I used to consider that an insult early on, only because I had never studied. – Danny Aiello	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
People call me an instinctive actor. I used to consider that an insult early on, only because I had never studied. – Danny Aiello	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
So this combination can result in an instinctive loyalty. – Angela Wright	Found on CNN 7 years ago
The growth outlook remains tepid at best and visibility is poor. Sentiment is now very fragile with the instinctive reflexive 'buy on dips' that has served investors well is now being supplanted by ‘sell the rally’, and that is precisely what we are seeing today. – Mike Ingram	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
We do not agree on the need of intervening (in Syria)without a strategy for what comes next because we have seen what happened in Libya, we cannot trust in instinctive, emotional, short-term reactions. – Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
When Marco Rubio speaks, young women swoon, old women faint and toilets flush themselves, this guy is really good. Marco is instinctive. He is also very, very disciplined. – Dan Gelber	Found on CNN 8 years ago
My own instinctive reaction, without having a huge number of facts in front of me, is that if you are striking terrorists using military force for many years in a row, then something like this unfortunately becomes almost a statistical inevitability, it is very hard to avoid. – Daniel Benjamin	Found on CNN 9 years ago
This instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very rare consolations for being so impoverished which are given to those of us who don't sell anything to anybody. – Louis-Ferdinand Céline	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers. – Harriet Beecher Stowe	added by anonymous 9 years ago
None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much. – Lydia Child	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential. – Bruce Lee	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Beauty is an instinctive miracle, which itself never makes its presence, but the reflection of which is evident in a thousand different statements of the inspired minds, and is as innumerable as nature itself. – The Omani shed	added by anonymous 11 years ago
When you think of the natural, instinctive icons, like friends, love, and money, you realize how fast they can come and go. Pride and dignity, however are the only icons you can manage to poccess forever. Always keep your head up no matter what.. – The wise Pharoah Moe	added by anonymous 11 years ago
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place. – Charles Baudelaire	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of frendship or affection. – Bertrand Russell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred. – Albert Einstein	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence. But this is a rash argument, as we should thus be compelled to believe in the existence of cruel and malignant spirits, only a little more powerful than man for the belief in them is far more general than in a beneficent Diety. – Charles Robert Darwin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. – Henry Robinson Luce	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Our instinctive emotions are those that we have inherited from a much more dangerous world, and contain, therefore, a larger portion of fear than they should. – Bertrand Russell	added by anonymous 14 years ago

When iridoid cocktails were applied on the bottom of dishes that were then covered by a punctured plastic cover, cats still exhibited licking and chewing even though they couldn't contact the chemicals directly, this means that licking and chewing is an instinctive behavior elicited by olfactory stimulation of iridoids.

– Masao Miyazaki

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's just instinctive to me, procedure is supposed to serve the people that law exists to serve.

– Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Kimberly Godwin is an instinctive and admired executive whose unique experiences, strengths and strategic vision made Kimberly Godwin the ideal choice to lead the outstanding team at ABC News and build on their incredible success.

– Peter Rice

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I am calling you' chosen ones' because you have been chosen in many ways, first, by the temperament and discipline you've lived by, by the creative fires that are inside of you and the instinctive lunges of your desires... You succeeded because of the aid and the love of others that are in your lives, without a doubt. But you have succeeded mostly because you, and you alone, chose to do so.

– Tom Hanks

Found on CNN
3 years ago

My interpretation of acting at the time, because I didn't know how to build a character, was pure energy, people call me an instinctive actor. I used to consider that an insult early on, only because I had never studied.

– Danny Aiello

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

People call me an instinctive actor. I used to consider that an insult early on, only because I had never studied.

– Danny Aiello

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

So this combination can result in an instinctive loyalty.

– Angela Wright

Found on CNN
7 years ago

The growth outlook remains tepid at best and visibility is poor. Sentiment is now very fragile with the instinctive reflexive 'buy on dips' that has served investors well is now being supplanted by ‘sell the rally’, and that is precisely what we are seeing today.

– Mike Ingram

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We do not agree on the need of intervening (in Syria)without a strategy for what comes next because we have seen what happened in Libya, we cannot trust in instinctive, emotional, short-term reactions.

– Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When Marco Rubio speaks, young women swoon, old women faint and toilets flush themselves, this guy is really good. Marco is instinctive. He is also very, very disciplined.

– Dan Gelber

Found on CNN
8 years ago

My own instinctive reaction, without having a huge number of facts in front of me, is that if you are striking terrorists using military force for many years in a row, then something like this unfortunately becomes almost a statistical inevitability, it is very hard to avoid.

– Daniel Benjamin

Found on CNN
9 years ago

This instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very rare consolations for being so impoverished which are given to those of us who don't sell anything to anybody.

– Louis-Ferdinand Céline

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.

– Harriet Beecher Stowe

added by anonymous
9 years ago

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.

– Lydia Child

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential.

– Bruce Lee

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Beauty is an instinctive miracle, which itself never makes its presence, but the reflection of which is evident in a thousand different statements of the inspired minds, and is as innumerable as nature itself.

– The Omani shed

added by anonymous
11 years ago

When you think of the natural, instinctive icons, like friends, love, and money, you realize how fast they can come and go. Pride and dignity, however are the only icons you can manage to poccess forever. Always keep your head up no matter what..

– The wise Pharoah Moe

added by anonymous
11 years ago

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

– Charles Baudelaire

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of frendship or affection.

– Bertrand Russell