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Several of the victims were men who died because they instinctively put their own bodies in the line of fire to protect the woman seated next to them. This was not a wife or a mother or a daughter—just their date for the evening. I doubt any of these men had ever given the slightest thought to what they would do in a situation like this.
— Ted Gioia

1mo ago

The mind is furnished with a set of instincts which seek out certain kinds of phenomena and are satisfied by the presence of these phenomena, just as the nutritive instincts are satisfied by food.

7mo ago

The mind is furnished with a set of instincts which seek out certain kinds of things, and reject others. It natively loves and hates, it seeks and shuns, and these operations are as primitive as any that the mind performs.

7mo ago

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