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But to confirm my instincts, I went back to the women, some of whom had the experience of using this product.
Our instincts tell us that deliberately causing someone's death is different than allowing them to die as collateral damage.
I remember my grandmother, and I realized that most of my creative instincts were actually based on my childhood memories and the art on my grandmother's skin.
You see, Ori in Yoruba mythology means your soul, it means your essence, it means your instincts.
I really wanted to understand what it meant to just let color rule, to trust my instincts, to stop asking for permission.
And compared to instincts, conscious thought is pretty slow.
Here are a few quotes indicating that: "Man has no nature," from the historian Jose Ortega y Gasset; "Man has no instincts," from the anthropologist Ashley Montagu; "The human brain is capable of a full range of behaviors and predisposed to none," from the late scientist Stephen Jay Gould.
Whereas, if we're born with certain instincts, then perhaps some of them might condemn us to selfishness, prejudice and violence.
Consider your fight-or-flight instincts.
The conventional wisdom is that to win an election, you have to dumb it down and play to your constituencies' basest, divisive instincts.
Perhaps there is a single part of our brain that holds all of our gut instincts, the things we know to do before we even think.
While some of these instincts may be innate, most are learned, and all of them are hardwired into our brains.
These instincts are essential for survival in both real and virtual worlds.
This caused a situation in which they were no longer able to feel the brain's natural fear and caution instincts.
Despite my high ideals for our classroom, I would too often default to my baser instincts, and I would choose compliance over confidence.
In time, the doctor’s potent potion and uncanny instincts became known throughout the land.
It had to add to the frontal part, so that you would have instincts, because they had to cope on land.
They aim their pictures at your best instincts, generosity, a sense of right and wrong, the ability and the willingness to identify with others, the refusal to accept the unacceptable.
In over 20 years of private practice, I have seen people of every age and background face every manner of heartbreak, and what I've learned is this: when your heart is broken, the same instincts you ordinarily rely on will time and again lead you down the wrong path.
Her instincts told her she was trying to solve a mystery, but what she was actually doing was getting her fix.
So, finally given an opportunity to direct a Star Trek feature film, would not Shatner follow his instincts and produce an action-filled flick with lots of tongue-in-cheek humor?
Well I should have went with my instincts.
He soon discovers Cassie's relentless attitude and all-consuming instincts when she asks him to pick up a sample of vomit that has been left at the scene for analysis, among other actions.
Throughout the whole movie, Tamura remains a bit cowardish, but very civil, when the other soldiers become more like animals by using their basic instincts for survival Tamura is still remaining human and would not degrade.
sadly some of the youngest and most gifted succumb to the lure of drugs while others become slaves to the crass marketing of their go for broke instincts.
As long as you can get past your puritanical instincts and realize that pornographers are people too, you'll realize the depth p.t. anderson gives to his characters.
By the time, he realises the changes and his animal instincts starts to take over his human side.
Plus the tow movies really work on a deeper level considering themes like American fears of foreigners, issues of morality, testing how far a person can go, human instincts vs. civilization, and many other things.
If one has such a high opinion of their self that they believe they possess an answer to everything like Him does, then I gotta see cash and a Blackberry which displays intelligence and good survival instincts to preserve that big ego which Him definitely has.
I think the director should have trust his instincts and not listen to the test audiences.
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