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Irrational impulse   /ɪrˈæʃənəl ˈɪmpəls/   Listen
Irrational impulse

noun
1.
A strong spontaneous and irrational motivation.  "The urge to find out got him into trouble"





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"Irrational impulse" Quotes from Famous Books



... including a large variety of correspondence schools for those who wish specific training. There are still thousands of boys and girls who enter industrial occupations in the most haphazard way, and yield to irrational impulse in choosing or giving up a particular job or a place to live in; similar impulse induces them to mate in the same haphazard way, and as lightly to separate if they tire of each other; but the very fact that enlightened ...
— Society - Its Origin and Development • Henry Kalloch Rowe


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