"From eating meat arrogance is born, from arrogance erroneous imaginations issue, and from imagination is born greed; and for this reason refrain from eating meat."
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"Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination."
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"My imagination is a kind of animal. So what I do is keep it alive."
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"A person must have a good memory to keep the promises he has made. A person must have a strong imagination to be able to have pity. So closely is morality tied to the quality of the intellect."
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"What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd."
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"A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself."
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"I get the facts, I study them patiently, I apply imagination."
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"In our imaginations we can go anywhere. Travel with me to Redwall in Mossflower country."
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"Imagination rules the earth"
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"Imagination is a sort of faint perception."
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"The greatest gift that you were ever given was the gift of your imagination."
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"Your imagination creates the inner picture that allows you to participate in the act of creation."
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"Everything will come true in cyberspace. That's the whole idea. What cyberspace is, on one level, it's simply the human imagination vivified, hardwired."
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"You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination."
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"The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory."
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"Our # imagination is ten times more potent than our # willpower ."
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"Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination."
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"When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations."
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"But intolerant,narrow minds with no imagination are like parasites that transform the host,change form,and continue to thrive. They're a lost cause, and I don't want anyone like that coming in here."
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"The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but art, by imagination, may lift itself to the height of this idea. Art is therefore akin to creation."
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