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Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking Quotes: Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.
         

Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.


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Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.
         



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