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Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Mus

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language. – Steven Pinker

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As many political writers have pointed out, commitment to political equality is not an empirical claim that people are clones. – Steven Pinker

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There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization. – Steven Pinker

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By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu. – Steven Pinker

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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth. – Samuel Johnson

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The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives. – Paul Muldoon

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Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate. – John Denham

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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows. – Edmund Burke

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Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics. – Kingsley Amis

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Learning how to fly, for me, was so euphoric. – Hilary Swank

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