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What separates the lower appetites of man from his higher aspirations? The beast must obey blindly its group instinct, the human need not. He can choose between doing the same as the animal or holding himself back to think, reason, and arrive at a considered decision.

-- Notebooks Category 6: Emotions and Ethics > Chapter 1 : Uplift Character > # 88