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“I've never felt so bereft and panicky. What do I do without my phone? How do I function? My hand keeps automatically reaching for my phone in its usual place in my pocket. Every instinct in me wants to text someone, 'OMG, I've lost my phone! ' but how can do that without a bloody phone?”

Want Hands Lost Felt Can Do Function Instinct Phones Reaching Pockets Usual Bloody Bereft

Book:I've Got Your Number

Source: I've Got Your Number

“[Religion is a] primitive insurance against disaster. ... Originally religion was merely a function of the self-preservative instinct. Offer sacrifices to the gods and save your crops. And even Christianity, after all, insures heavily against the flaws in this life by belief in another.”

Self Belief Christianity Sacrifice Offers Function Instinct Disaster This Life Flaws Primitive Crops

Book:Told by an Idiot

Source: Told by an Idiot

“The neuro-physiological organization which we call instinct functions in a blindly mechanical way, particularly apparent when its function goes wrong.”

Way Organization Function Instinct Physiological

Book:On aggressión

Source: On aggressión

“Presently we have to train our unconscious to function better. Then we can depend upon our instincts, that will be noble instincts. At this moment, our instincts are very impure. When we have practiced for a long time, living the higher values of life and following the instructions of great masters or the Scriptures, that is when you have trained your unconscious. Then when a situation comes, you can to an extent, depend on your inner voice.”

Long Moments Values Voice Situation Masters Depends Higher Long Time Function Train Instinct Following Noble Scripture Unconscious Instruction Inner Voice Value Of Life

Author:Chinmayananda Saraswati

“My first instinct was to cast as close to the short story as possible, but then I realized that I needed actors who could go for it and that they had to function well as a couple in a love story.”

Firsts Wells Stories Actors Couple Needed Function Instinct Casts I Realized Love Story Short Story

Author:Ang Lee

“Courage is about learning how to function despite the fear, to put aside your instincts to run or give in completely to the anger born from fear. Courage is about using your brain and your heart when every cell of your body is screaming at your to fight or flee - and then following through on what you believe is the right thing to do.”

Source: Ghost Story: A Novel of the Dresden Files

“It is true, says Liebeg, that thousands have lived without a knowledge of tea and coffee; and daily experience teaches us that, under certain circumstances, they may be dispensed with without disadvantage to the merely animal functions, but it is an error, certainly, to conclude from this that they may be altogether dispensed with in reference to their effects; and It is a question whether, if we had no tea and no coffee, the popular instinct would not seek for and discover the means of replacing them.”

Ifs May Mean Certain Animal Teach Effects Circumstances Function Errors Instinct Coffee Tea Disadvantages Daily Experience

Book:Mrs Beeton's Household Management

Source: Mrs Beeton's Household Management

“Psychogenesis has led to man. Now it effaces itself, relieved or absorbed by another and a higher function-the engendering and subsequent development of the mind, in one word noogenesis. When for the first time in a living creature instinct perceived itself in its own mirror, the whole world took a pace forward.”

Men World Mind Firsts Whole Science Development Higher Creatures First Time Function Mirrors Instinct Whole World Pace One Word Relieved Living Creatures

Book:The Phenomenon of Man

Source: The Phenomenon of Man