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“The impulse of humanity toward social progress is like the movement in the currents of a great water system, from myriad sources and under myriad circumstances and conditions, beating onward, ever onward toward its eternity, the Ocean.”

Humanity Social Water Progress Conditions Movement Source Circumstances Ocean Eternity Currents Impulse Social Change Social Progress

Book:The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters

Source: The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters

“Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse of us in certain circumstances may be necessary for our happiness.”

May Would Be Certain Fool Personality Circumstances Criminals Impulse Unjust Birthright

Author:Gertrude Atherton

“Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any circumstances.”

Want Self Circumstances Creator Lust Impulse Related Mutilation Castration Self Mutilation

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse -- borne away with every breath!”

Circumstances Breaths Slave Impulse

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse borne away with every breath! Misplaced upon the throne misplaced in life. I know not what I could have been, but feel I am not what I should be let it end.”

Knows Feels Should Has Beens Ends Circumstances Breaths Slave Impulse Thrones Could Have Been Misplaced

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“So in accepting the leading of the sentiments, it is not what we believe concerning the immortality of the soul, or the like, but the universal impulse to believe, that is the material circumstance, and is the principal fact in this history of the globe.”

Believe Soul Facts Accepting Materials Circumstances Universal Impulse Immortality Sentiments Principal Globes

Book:Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays

Source: Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays

“I can start with the idea of taking until you can take off, through the idea that all of my writing foregrounds the idea of how I'm taking from my own life. I'm stealing from my own life in a way, and from the people around me, but in service of getting somewhere else. I'm starting with an autobiographical impulse, to get a better vantage on the circumstances of the life that I happen to be in at the moment and how that life connects to others.”

People Writing Moments Circumstances Stealing Impulse

Author:Douglas A. Martin

“Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.”

Persons Literature Example Discipline Circumstances Thousand Shapes Impulse

Author:James Russell Lowell