You know, I mean it's somehow inevitable when you're a dad just against your own best instincts you come off very authoritarian and...

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Why do you impede all your best instincts?

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If Mr Medvedev has liberal instincts, the best way to show them would be to run a free and fair presidential election.

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Led by Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, the instincts and habits of this team are 20th century at best, mercantilist at worst.

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But Bos's research suggests that some instincts are the result of the unconscious having correctly identified the best option.

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Rather than being misled by our instincts on a first date, we can calmly sort through the alternatives and find the best possible spouse, the would-be soul mate who will maximize our romantic utility.

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The French postal service, for example, has used it to help its workers choose the best delivery routes, and pharmaceutical researchers are using it to determine molecular structures by combining their gut instincts with known results stored in a database.

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