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1. " Of greater interest, however, may be his curious essay "Instinct vs. Reason--A Black Cat," in which he discusses the mysterious line between the seeming instinct of an animal and the reason of a human."

Source:   Stark, Joseph. "Motive and meaning: the mystery of the Will in Poe's "The Black Cat"" Mississippi Quarterly 57.2 Mar. 22 2004: 255-264 Google This

2. " It is free will that distinguishes human beings from other animals, who are incapable of reasoning and so operate only on blind instinct or on the basis of conditioned learning; it is..."

Source:   . "Letters" Social Work 45.1 Jan. 1 2000: 94

3. "... in a higher order or whatever, I think I'd put humans on the top as well because well we build things, animals don't, yes they just rely on instinct."

Source:  Daniel, Marie-France,Splitter, Laurance,Slade, Christina,Lafortune, Louise,Pallascio, Richard,Mongeau, Pierre. "Dialogical critical thinking: elements of definitions emerging in the analysis of transcripts from pupils aged 10 to 12 years" Australian Journal of Education 48.3 Nov. 1 2004: 295-314

4. "... in a higher order or whatever, I think I'd put humans on the top as well because well we build things, animals don't, yes they just rely on instinct."

Source:   Harrison, Neil. "The reproduction of historical relations in the crosscultural classroom at university" Australian Journal of Education 48.3 Nov. 1 2004: 282-295 Google This

5. " Rather, various natural demands shared with animals, such as hunger, thirst, shelter, and sexuality,(112) raise questions for human beings to answer by discursive reasoning that in animals would be answered by instinct."

Source:   Rogers, Eugene F., Jr. "The narrative of natural law in Aquinas's commentary on Romans 1" Theological Studies v59.n2 June 1 1998: 254-277 Google This

6. " The fact that their behavior is still largely ruled by the instincts of the tribal society and has not kept pace with the development of the abstract society explains why they try to..."

Source:   BIRNER, JACK,EGE, RAGIP. "Two Views on Social Stability: An Unsettled Question" American Journal of Economics and Sociology 58.4 Oct. 1 1999: 749 Google This

7. " It is also hard having one's distinctive: human shape used as a screen for the projection of what some other people feel to be their "animal" instincts."

Source:   WILLIAMS, PATRICIA J. "DIARY OF A MAD LAW PROFESSOR" Nation 268.3 Jan. 25 1999: 9-10 Google This

8. " Unlike humans, animals are believed to live in perpetual fear and misery, their unpredictable social world constructed around the gratification of base instincts (eating, procreation, sleep, etc.). [57] Through belief in a predestined crocodile rebirth dependent..."

Source:   JOHNSON, IRVING CHAN. "Seductive Mediators: The Nuuraa Performer's Ritual Persona as a Love Magician in Kelantanese Thai Society" Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 30.2 Sept. 1 1999: 286 Google This

9. " If we apply the same sceptical state of mind to the assumption of the fox's lack of career, the animal's possession of mere instinct and the human self-conceit of its..."

Source:   Fudge, Erica. "Animal lives: Erica Fudge asks if, and how, a biography of an animal might be written" History Today 54.10 Oct. 1 2004: 21-27 Google This

10. "... culture on the one hand and a total debasement of popular culture, on the other hand where emotions were allowed to deteriorate into animal instincts unbridled by any human disciplines."

Source:   Klostermaier, Klaus K. "Gaudiya Vaisnavism: the education of human emotions" Journal of Asian and African Studies 34.1 Feb. 1 1999: 127-128 Google This

11. " We can thus affirm with Heidegger, albeit on more concrete historical grounds, that existential questions of purpose and meaning run deeper in human nature than supposed animal instincts and cannot be tweaked by DNA sequencing."

Source:   Zimmermann, Jens. "Quo vadis?: literary theory beyond postmodernism" Christianity and Literature 53.4 June 22 2004: 495-520 Google This

12. " Fortunately, the Caps' new owners have the instincts and intelligence to support McPhee, who thought he lost his job after he left the Chicago locker room with his suit torn to shreds."

Source:   Loverro, Thom. "NHL heading down the path of pro wrestling" Washington Times Oct. 2 1999: 1 Google This

13. " His motto is "`Be a good animal, true to your animal instinct'" (p. 147), but even this is a quotation from Herbert Spencer."

Source:   HARRISON, JOHN R. "THE FLESH AND THE WORD: THE EVOLUTION OF A METAPHYSIC IN THEEARLY WORK OF D. H. LAWRENCE" Studies in the Novel 32.1 Mar. 22 2000: 29 Google This

14. " Directed by Simon Shore from a screenplay by Patrick Wilde. * Instinct (1999) (R: Occasional profanity and graphic violence, including episodes of prison brutality and wild animal poaching) - (ONE STAR)."

Source:   Arnold, Gary. "MOVIES;MINI-REVIEWS" Washington Times June 24 1999: 22 Google This

15. " Their narrative virtuosity is part of the fun. * Instinct (1999) (R: Occasional profanity and graphic violence, including episodes of prison brutality and wild animal poaching) - (ONE STAR)."

Source:   Arnold, Gary. "MOVIES;MINI-REVIEWS" Washington Times June 17 1999: 22 Google This

16. " A good deal of the time you feel transported by exceptional imagery and musical accompaniment. * Instinct (1999) (R: Occasional profanity and graphic violence, including episodes of prison brutality and wild animal poaching) - (ONE STAR)."

Source:   Arnold, Gary. "MOVIES;MINI-REVIEWS" Washington Times June 10 1999: 22 Google This

17. " The instinct to make a fresh start didn't extend to our animals."

Source:   McKAY, PETER. "Mrs McKay" New Statesman (1996) 129.4468 Jan. 10 2000: 6 Google This

18. " She suspects that her parents' struggle is a disfiguring disease she has caught: "Even animals have the instinct to turn from suffering," Rosa argues. "The sense to run away." She scorns her conformity to her parents'..."

Source:   Linfield, Susie. "Why, the Beloved Country" Nation 269.20 Dec. 13 1999: 26 Google This

19. " Conservatives (like me) blame the violent messages in the popular culture which proliferate everywhere, numbing the senses of young men and women with their repetitive appeal to animal instincts, undercutting a family's traditional control of moral values."

Source:   Fields, Suzanne. "No magic bullets" Washington Times May 3 1999: 19 Google This

20. " Throughout, the author frequently poses the ever-present question, "Is this emotion or instinct?" Outstanding, color photographs, beautifully illustrate the animals' expressions."

Source:   . "Animal feelings" Resource Links 4.3 Feb. 1 1999: 14 Google This

21. " Are women morally superior to that other sex, and consequently vulnerable to the "animal" instincts of men, or are men and women the same in their sexual appetites despite differences in their anatomies?"

Source:   Fields, Suzanne. "The bad-boy presidency" Washington Times Aug. 24 1998: 19 Google This

22. " Nixon never expressed a personal interest in environmental issues, recalls Train; rather, he reacted as "a highly political animal ... [whose] instincts told him that he and the Republican Party could..."

Source:   Hertsgaard, Mark. "The once-green GOP" Nation 278.5 Feb. 9 2004: 6 Google This

23. " 12.99 [pounds sterling] Weidenfeld & N. (9.2004) 0 297 82909 2 Titchmarsh, Alan Animal Instincts, 18cm.400p. n.e. pbk 6.99 [pounds sterling] Pocket Books (9.2004) 0 7434 7848 7 Last Lighthouse Keeper, The."

Source:   . "Publications of the week" Bookseller .5145 Sept. 10 2004: 32-43

24. " OPENING * Instinct (1999) (R: Occasional profanity and graphic violence, including episodes of prison brutality and wild animal poaching) - (ONE STAR)."

Source:   Arnold, Gary. "MOVIES;MINI-REVIEWS" Washington Times June 3 1999: 22 Google This

25. " The good doctor, a brilliant scientist, wanted to indulge his animal instincts and then easily return to being a man of genial respectability."

Source:   Fields, Suzanne. "William Jekyll and Bill Hyde" Washington Times Jan. 25 1999: 19 Google This

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