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insight
«It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.»
Author: Northrop Frye
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«Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.»
«If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.»
Author: Erica Jong
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activities, creativity, dictators, insight, lead, revolutionaries, revolutionary, Sex and, subversive, The Dictators, The Knowledge, voice
«A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
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Danger
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insight, luxury, point of view, substituted
«In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to past revolutions, without insight into the present movement, but preserving popular influence by their known honesty and courage, or by the sheer force of tradition; others mere brawlers, who, by dint of repeating year after year the same set of stereotyped declamations against the government of the day, have sneaked into the reputation of revolutionists of the first water They are an unavoidable evil: with time they are shaken off.»
Author: Karl Marx
(Philosopher)
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«As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
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increasingly, insight, social affair, techniques, the Techniques, world affairs
«If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
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Understanding
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at the same time, insight, understands