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• Poetry is not an end in itself but in the service of life; of what use are poems, or any other works of art, unless to enable human lives to be lived with insight of a deeper kind, with more sensitive feelings, more intense sense of the beautiful, with deeper understanding?

  Kathleen Raine

  Beautiful, Art, Understanding

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• Those who have obtained the farthest insight into Nature have been, in all ages, firm believers in God.

  William Whewell

  Faith, Age, Believer

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• Poetry saves what is human in this world going gaudy & insane. In exploring small truths, something larger might turn up, adding dimension, insight, vision, recognition to our lives. We just might be more complete, more aware after a poem.

  Diane Glancy

  Poetry, Vision, Insane

  Diane Glancy (1996). “Claiming Breath”, p.83, U of Nebraska Press

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• The perpetual danger which besets religion is that it may substitute gentility and aestheticism for prophetic insight and power.

  Georgia Harkness

  Religion, May, Danger

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• The sciences are said, and they are truly said, to have a mutual connection, that any one of them may be the better understood, for an insight into the rest.

  Samuel Horsley

  Science, Connections, May

  Samuel Horsley (1811). “Sermons”, p.5

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• It is commonly the case with technologies that you can get the best insight about how they work by watching them fail.

  Neal Stephenson

  Technology, Failing, Cases

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• Great art is not a matter of presenting one side or another, but presenting a picture so full of the contradictions, tragedies, [and] insights of the period that the impact is at once disturbing and satisfying.

  Pauli Murray

  Art, Impact, Tragedy

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• Leaders are not buffeted about by circumstance. They make what is into what might be, transforming challenging situations by means of courage and insight.

  Diane Dreher

  Mean, Leader, Challenges

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• Art forms render ideas accessible to readers who could not receive those insights in any other format.

  Sara Maitland

  Art, Ideas, Form

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• Children are not created fully equipped with such values as courage, compassion, integrity, and insights into the motives and needs of themselves and of others.

  Irene Hunt

  Children, Integrity, Compassion

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• A love of reading encompasses the whole of life: information, knowledge, insight and understanding, pleasure; the power to think, to select, to act, to create - all of these are inherent in a love of reading.

  Frances Clarke Sayers

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  Frances Clarke Sayers, Marjeanne Jensen Blinn (1965). “Summoned by Books: Essays and Speeches by Frances Clarke Sayers”, New York : Viking Press

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• a scientist or a writer is one who ruminates continuously on the nature of physical or imaginative life, experiences repeated relief and excitement when the insight comes, and is endlessly attracted to working out the idea.

  Vivian Gornick

  Science, Ideas, Work Out

  Vivian Gornick (2013). “Women in Science: Then and Now”, p.30, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• The reliance on social media as the avenue to get peer insight continues to increase.

  Bob Johnson

  Media, Peers, Social

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• I have long admired Caroline Leavitt's probing insight into people, her wit and compassion, her ability to find humor in dark situations, and conversely, her tenderness towards characters.

  Dan Chaon

  Character, Dark, Compassion

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• Of the total creative effort represented in a finished work, 75 percent or more of a writer's labor goes into designing the story designing story tests the maturity and insight of the writer, his knowledge of society, nature, and the human heart.  Story demands both vivid imagination and powerful analytic thought.

  Robert McKee

  Powerful, Heart, Maturity

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• Somebody said, "Well, you're going to write your definitive book about your life, biography." No, I'm not. I haven't done that. I wrote a book of letters which gives an insight into the real me as opposed to the public perceptions of me. But I'm convinced historians will figure out the things we got wrong and hopefully the things we got right.

  George H. W. Bush

  Real, Book, Writing

  "Transcript: George H.W. Bush on "FOX News Sunday". "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. November 4, 2007.

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• It changes how people read you if you believe in God. It gives insight into your motivation, how you look at problems and how you deal with people.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Motivation, Believe, Giving

  "Interview: Malcolm Gladwell on his return to faith while writing “David and Goliath”". Interview with Sarah Pulliam Bailey, religionnews.com. October 9, 2013.

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• I keep in touch with my fans by keeping a blog online and I try to answer questions every day. I also have a twitter and a facebook. I think that social networking gives authors a unique insight in the minds of their fans and for me that is very valuable.

  Cassandra Clare

  Unique, Thinking, Giving

  Phantastik-Couch.de Interview, www.phantastik-couch.de. March 2012.

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• conventional English usage, including the generic use of masculine-gender words, often obscures the actions, the contributions, and sometimes the very presence of women. Turning our backs on that insight is an option, of course, but it is an option like teaching children that the world is flat.

  Casey Miller

  Children, Teaching, Use

  Casey Miller, Kate Swift (2001). “The Handbook of Nonsexist Writing”, p.8, iUniverse

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• When one's thoughts are neither frivolous nor flippant, when one's thoughts are neither stiff-necked nor stupid, but rather, are harmonious -- they habitually render physical calm and deep insight.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Stupid, Flippant, Calm

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• since each child reads only about six hundred books in the course of childhood, each book should nourish them in some way - with new ideas, insight, humor, or vocabulary.

  Joan Aiken

  Children, Book, Vocabulary

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• People might gain insight the longer they live, but things never get easy. There will always be challenges and miscommunications and the temptation to eat greasy, bowel clogging fried food, and take others for granted. The secret is to keep moving and try to see people yo love for what they are: flawed, beautiful and as confused as you.

  Rob Payne

  Beautiful, Confused, Moving

  "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, 2003.

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• Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish.

  Jennifer Stone

  Light, Sorrow, Rubbish

  Jennifer Stone (1992). “Telegraph Avenue then”, Regent Pr

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• If there is one sweeping generalization I can make without fear of contradiction, it is that 'change' is the scariest word in the English language Nothing will change in our lives until we change our own behavior. Insight won't do it. Understanding why we do the self-defeating things we do won't make us stop doing them. Nagging and pleading with the other person to change won't do it. We have to act. We have to take the first step down a new road.

  Susan Forward

  Self, Understanding, Nagging

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• I'm not a very good impersonator, my friends maybe, but not famous people.

  Diane Kruger

  Inspiration, Humor, People

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