We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
quote by Edna St. Vincent Millay
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
quote by Van Wyck Brooks
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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.
quote by Albert Einstein
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The basic drives
Self preservation and race preservation
Are the basic drives with which life is run.
All kinds of actions are their extensions.
Hence, selfishness cannot be uprooted.
06.10.2008
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Women victims
Men might offer helps to women,
Triggered by sexual impulses
And women may accept from them
With little sexual impulses.
A warm friendship might develop
To purr both horses to gallop.
Enough, a sexual scandal breaks,
Spreads fast and gets seasoned like wine
To intoxicate men recipients.
Women victims are in abundance.
10.10.2008
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Love and passion
Consciousness accompanying impulses
Is determined solely by the impulses,
Consciousness itself having no influence
Like that shades accompanying objects
Is determined solely by the objects
Isn’t love mere a shade of passion?
21.07.2003
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Purple Passions
Purple Desires
illuminate my mind
Purple fragrances
mesmorize my impulses
impulses, which drive me wild,
put me in a trance
everytime i am with you.
Purple Clouds
keep me in a daze
looking at the sky
I can see the outline of your face
in those clouds
I feel purely divine introvention
just the mention of your name
Purple Flowers all around me
I just love it
Sensuality
Can you believe the color purple
can make me feel closer to you
gets me that way
Do you see the color purple,
when you look at me too?
poem by Adrienne Clark Strachn
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Glass Shatters
The glass has a flimsiness, frailty of course,
Do not deceive me with fraudulence or fraud.
Glass shatters from impulses,
Glass has love for the actions,
This glass I hold and dropp reminds.
The frantic wept, as no other weeper,
The fraternity has evaporated,
Never the escapade of shattering glass
Has gone by without returning,
And so the glass has an escapade.
poem by Naveed Akram
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Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them.
quote by Mason Cooley
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Impulses are hard to come by these days.
quote by Jack Levine
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Dark impulses certainly exist in me and, I think, in most people.
quote by Stephen Hopkins
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It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses.
Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.
quote by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
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Poetic tensions:
pulsations and impulses,
pregnant projections.
haiku by Jonathan Robin (10 January 1993)
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I got interested in computers and how they could be enslaved to the megalomaniac impulses of a teenager.
quote by Eugene Jarvis
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One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
quote by Henry Miller
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I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.
quote by Gustav Mahler
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Cornucopia
Ask not for what you desire
God Grants what you need
Resist impulses to acquire
Multitudes...He Doth Feed
poem by Ray Lucero
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We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
quote by Marquis de Sade
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Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.
quote by William Moulton Marston
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The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds.
quote by Joseph Conrad
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