"Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity."
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"Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he or she is in. That person must reflect what is projected upon him or her."
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"Working with the body and the imagination - non-verbal ways especially - tap into our deepest wounds and our highest potentials as humans."
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"While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot."
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"We have our brush and colors - paint Paradise and in we go."
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"To feel beauty is a better thing than to understand how we come to feel it. To have imagination and taste, to love the best, to be carried by the contemplation of nature to a vivid faith in the ideal, all this is more, a great deal more, than any science can hope to be."
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"It was over in a blink of an eye, that moment when aviation stirred the modern imagination. Aviation was transformed from recklessness to routine in Lindbergh's lifetime. Today the riskiest part of air travel is the drive to the airport, and the airlines use a barrage of stimuli to protect passengers from ennui."
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"All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion."
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"Every day the eye is subject to a thousand tiny shocks as a thousand industries compete for the eye-kick, the visual hook that will lock the consumer into product for that crucial second where the tiny - or not so tiny - leap of the imagination is made."
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"Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith!"
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"We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects."
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"The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt."
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"I'm an actor. Whether I'm on stage, in front of a camera or a microphone, what I do is the same - although with videogames it requires a lot of imagination."
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"One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance of the mathematical imagination."
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"Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders."
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"The key to life is imagination."
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"I have a very vivid imagination."
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"The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or denial), in anger of tone and timbre. When the anger led to action there was no turgidity or over-emphasis. Anyone who has witnessed political rows among the Whites will have to admit that the Whites aren't overburdened with poetic imagination."
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"There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]"
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"What is it in the actor, the stage, that casts so powerful a spell on the young imagination?"
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