Sentences with phrase «main human instincts»

They exploit two main human instincts: inertia and loss aversion.

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She had some public instincts, it is true; she hated the Lutherans, and longed for the church's triumph over them; but in the main her idea of religion seems to have been that of an endless amatory flirtation — if one may say so without irreverence — between the devotee and the deity; and apart from helping younger nuns to go in this direction by the inspiration of her example and instruction, there is absolutely no human use in her, or sign of any general human interest.
As the story unfolds, you don't really like the main characters - the single mum Halley in particular and even, many times, against your better instinct as a human being, her child - Moonie.
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