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• My hunch is that pop culture began to stagnate the moment Americans started to love the past more than they did the future.

  Graydon Carter

  Past, Culture, Moments

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• Hunches are a kind of subterranean logic shorthand.

  Joyce Brothers

  Intuition, Logic, Kind

  Joyce Brothers (1985). “How to get whatever you want out of life”

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• Steep yourself in your subject, work like hell, and love, honor and obey your hunches.

  Leo Burnett

  Honor, And Love, Hell

  Leo Burnett (1961). “Communications of an Advertising Man: Selections from the Speeches, Articles, Memoranda, and Miscellaneous Writings of Leo Burnett”

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• The fact that slang is apt and forceful makes its use irresistibly tempting. Coarse or profane slang is beside the mark, but "flivver," "taxi," the "movies," "deadly" (meaning dull), "feeling fit," "feeling blue," "grafter," a "fake," "grouch," "hunch" and "right o!" are typical of words that it would make our spoken language stilted to exclude.

  Emily Post

  Blue, Fake, Feelings

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.62, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Over the years, there certainly have been plenty of ideas that I've had and given up on, but for this one, the only thing that was standing in its way was me doing it - I just had to write it... And then if it didn't happen, it didn't happen. But I didn't want it to be for lack of effort on my part, so I had hunch that it would be a good story and that we would work well together. And it certainly worked out that way.

  Paul Reiser

  Writing, Years, Ideas

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• Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

  Herbert Spencer

  Feelings, Intuition, Determined

  'Social Statics' (1850) pt. 4, ch. 30, 8

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• The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a walk; cultivate hunches; write everything down, but keep your folders messy; embrace serendipity; make generative mistakes; take on multiple hobbies; frequent coffeehouses and other liquid networks; follow the links; let others build on your ideas; borrow, recycle; reinvent. Build a tangled bank.

  Steven Johnson

  Art, Mistake, Writing

  Steven Johnson (2010). “Where Good Ideas Come From”, p.156, Penguin

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• My hunch is that people often affiliate with causes online for selfish and narcissistic purposes. Sometimes, it may be as simple as trying to impress their online friends, and once you have fashioned that identity, there is very little reason to actually do anything else.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Selfish, Simple, People

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• I have a hunch that our obsession with photography arises from an unspoken pessimism; it is our nature to believe the good things will not last. . . But photos provide a false sense of security> like our flawed memory, they are guaranteed to fade. . . . We take photographs in order to remember, but it is in the nature of a photograph to forget (pg 157)

  Michelle Richmond

  Photography, Memories, Believe

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• Reality is nothing more than a collective hunch.

  Lily Tomlin

  Reality, Collectives

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• The theory that gravitational attraction is inversely proportional to the square of the distance leads by remorseless logic to the conclusion that the path of a planet should be an ellipse .... It is this logical thinking that is the real meat of the physical sciences. The social scientist keeps the skin and throws away the meat.... His theorems no more follow from his postulates than the hunches of a horse player follow logically from the latest racing news. The result is guesswork clad in long flowing robes of gobbledygook.

  Anthony Standen

  Horse, Real, Distance

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• In my own life, as winters turn into spring, I find it not only hard to cope with mud but also hard to credit the small harbingers of larger life to come, hard to hope until the outcome is secure. Spring teaches me to look more carefully for the green stems of possibility; for the intuitive hunch that may turn into a larger insight, for the glance or touch that may thaw a frozen relationship, for the stranger's act of kindness that makes the world seem hospitable again.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Kindness, Spring, Winter

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• I SEE thee better in the dark, I do not need a light. The love of thee a prism be Excelling violet. I see thee better for the years That hunch themselves between, The miner’s lamp sufficient be To nullify the mine. And in the grave I see thee best— Its little panels be A-glow, all ruddy with the light I held so high for thee! What need of day to those whose dark Hath so surpassing sun, It seem it be continually At the meridian?

  Emily Dickinson

  Dark, Years, Light

  Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.470, Harvard University Press

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• Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

  Audre Lorde

  Knowledge, Emotional, Feelings

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.91, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The creative process requires more than reason. Most original thinking isn't even verbal. It requires 'a groping experimentation with ideas, governed by intuitive hunches and inspired by the unconscious.' The majority of business men are incapable of original thinking because they are unable to escape from the tyranny of reason. Their imaginations are blocked.

  David Ogilvy

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• Having spent time around "sinners" and also around purported saints, I have a hunch why Jesus spent so much time with the former group: I think he preferred their company. Because the sinners were honest about themselves and had no pretense, Jesus could deal with them. In contrast, the saints put on airs, judged him, and sought to catch him in a moral trap. In the end it was the saints, not the sinners, who arrested Jesus.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Thinking, Air

  FaceBook post by Philip Yancey from Nov 12, 2013

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• Reality is just a collective hunch.

  Jane Wagner

  Reality, Collectives

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• The only time I have a good hunch the audience is going to be there is when I make the sequel to 'Jurassic Park' or I make another Indiana Jones movie. I know I've got a good shot at getting an audience on opening night. Everything else that is striking out into new territory is a crap shoot.

  Steven Spielberg

  Night, Jurassic Park, Territory

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• If you deny yourself access to the child within because you're too serious, you also block your connection to the divine Light and your feminine self. Every creator who's any good uses their feminine side to create with.. Whether a scientist working on a hunch, a painter working on the interplay of colors, or a musician dealing with the juxtaposition of notes and chords.

  Stuart Wilde

  Children, Block, Light

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• It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.

  Jonas Salk

  Morning, Sea, Psychics

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• I have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections.

  Donald Knuth

  Science, Dna, Patents

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• Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.

  Plotinus

  Knowledge, Mean, Illumination

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• Mosca said nothing. The word ‘damsel’ rankled with her. She suddenly thought of the clawed girl from the night before, jumping the filch on an icy street. Much the same age and build as Beamabeth, and far more beleaguered. What made a girl a ‘damsel in distress’? Were they not allowed claws? Mosca had a hunch that if all damsels had claws they would spend a lot less time ‘in distress’.

  Frances Hardinge

  Girl, Night, Jumping

  Frances Hardinge (2011). “Twilight Robbery”, p.105, Pan Macmillan

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• One of the first things we teach medical students is to listen to the patient by taking a careful medical history. Ninety percent of the time, you can arrive at an uncannily accurate diagnosis by paying close attention, using physical examination and sophisticated lab test to confirm your hunch (and to increase the bill to the insurance company).

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Attention, Examination, Labs

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• As I'm never going to be old, I'm glad that I never lost my sense of wonder about the world, although I have a hunch it would have happened pretty soon. I loved the world, its beauty and bigness as well as its smallness.

  Douglas Coupland

  World, Wonder, Lost

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