People are more impulsive and they get slightly less impulsive as they get older and the impulsiveness interacting … - Kay Redfield Jamison

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Kay Redfield Jamison

People are more impulsive and they get slightly less impulsive as they get older and the impulsiveness interacting with the depression is particularly devastating and lethal, potentially lethal.

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The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionately resolved in favor of the senses.

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