impulses

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There are more impulses and ideas than can be dramatically metabolized.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

Are we still deserving of kindness when someone knows our darkest, most cruel impulses?

From Salon • Apr. 3, 2026

In any case, it’s fully in keeping with the Founders’ aim of making the Senate a body that checks public impulses.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

“In the near term, there are some inflationary impulses from the rise in oil prices over the last couple of months,” Angelo Kourkafas, senior global investment strategist at Edward Jones, said in an interview Monday.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 2, 2026

Still, upon sudden impulses, just to play safe, I would abruptly move from one to another fifteen- to twenty-dollar-a- week room, always in my favorite 147th-150th Street area, just flanking Sugar Hill.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey