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Paulie whips out a gun and shoots the waiter dead -- an impulse killing that later brings about a tender reconciliation.

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And then a talent for acting on the impulse to kill.

On seeing them, the narrator has an impulse to kill them.

In other words, whatever generalities the clever can extrapolate, the impulse to kill has each time been personal.

The Kentucky-born Abraham Lincoln well understood the mentality when he wrote, "Each man feels an impulse to kill his neighbor lest he be first killed by him".

A connection between sexual desire and the impulse to kill — that tried and true German Liebestod — is proposed but never really explored.

Now What?" The text says, in part, "It's hard to resist the impulse to kill Kenneth Goldsmith, but many different and more effective strategies are available".

" 'We've been chosen to look after this little girl,' she seemed to be telling him, 'so we might as well get on with it.' " Sue has had her shadows: a violent impulse to kill their baby, a near suicidal car smashup.

As "Camus at Combat," a new collection of his editorials — he was a working journalist — makes plain, the experience, first, of the Nazi occupation of France, and then of the struggle of Algerian independence against France led him to conclude that the "primitive" impulse to kill and torture shared a taproot with the habit of abstraction, of thinking of other people as a class of entities.

Even though heautoscopy, epilepsy and suicide may be a more common triad than previously recognized [ 41], we know little about the mutual correlation, but the description of the survivors, as in our case, would rather favour a causal relation between the double experience and the impulse to kill oneself.

She has seen the boy with the bread, but she has seen the boy who cannot control his hardwired impulses to kill her.

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