“ Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for — they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and falsehood? ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. ”
- Herbert Spencer- Copy
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“ The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd. ”
- Sarah Bernhardt- Copy
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“ Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions. Desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
- 538
“ Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex. ”
- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale- Copy
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“ A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning. ”
- Richard M. Nixon- Copy
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“ As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home. ”
- Lance Morrow- Copy
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“ Civilization is not a spontaneous generation with any race or nation known to history, but the torch to be handed down from race to race from age to age. ”
- Kelly Millar- Copy
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“ Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire. ”
- Arnold H. Glasow- Copy
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“ No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means. ”
- Garrett Hardin- Copy
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“ When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. ”
- Bruce Lee- Copy
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“ Parenting, at its best, comes as naturally as laughter. It is automatic, involuntary, unconditional love. ”
- Sally James- Copy
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“ No, truly, 'tis more than manners will; And I have heard it said, unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Instinct is a powerful form of natural energy, perhaps comparable in humans to electricity or even atomic energy in the mechanical world. ”
- Margaret A. Ribble- Copy
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“ Lust and force are the source of all our actions; lust causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
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“ I think there's a natural system in your own head about how much violence the scene warrants. It's not an intellectual process, it's an instinctive process. ”
- Guy Ritchie- Copy
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“ Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones. ”
- Blaise Pascal- Copy
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“ We are all born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society. ”
- Judith Martin- Copy
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“ I went to a convent in New York and was fired finally for my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion. ”
- Dorothy Parker- Copy
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“ We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society. ”
- Judith Martin- Copy
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“ Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. ”
- e.e. cummings- Copy
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“ All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
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“ Spontaneous kindness is to hipsters as high beams are to deer. ”
- J. Jacques- Copy
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