"To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow men a secret element of gusto."
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"A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he"
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"I'm astonished how little fright I have of my own imagination. It really does baffle me that I don't get more scared because I'm capable of thinking up things that are so awful. On any given day I can imagine the worst."
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"Through imagination, we can visualize the uncredited worlds of potential that lie within us."
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"I'm always looking for something to engage my imagination and take me on a little mental voyage. I just want a new topic in my life."
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"Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology."
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"Experiences aren't pornographic; only images and representations - structures of the imagination - are."
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"The wind is the moon's imagination wandering."
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"Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities."
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"Imagination is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared."
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"Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared."
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"I like imagination -- and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be -- better than reality."
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"A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality."
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"Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination."
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"I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination."
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"In film, a lot of the time you're not as engaged, it is all being given to you, and you're accepting it as it comes in, but in comics, as a reader, you are going to have to work, your imagination needs to do an awful lot."
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"We have ... dreamed so much and observed so little, that our imaginations have grown larger than the world we live in, and our judgments have dwindled down to a point."
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"How do you want to create peace, if there is no peace inside yourselves?"
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"Don't let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole."
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"In the case of most pains let this remark of Epicurus aid thee, that the pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting, if thou bear in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination."
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