We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race. (Edna St. Vincent Millay)

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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