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Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

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W. Somerset Maugham
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Category: Imagination

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. Study is the bane of childhood the oil of youth the indulgence of adulthood and a restorative in old age.
  • 2. Sally Field looks amazing in general never mind her age! She's a phenomenally talented actress and has had a career spanning so many decades.
  • 3. There's a small club of women who are willing to age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I don't think immortality is necessarily the key to understanding the world. You have to be careful with what you think you're achieving. I'm all for science discovering amazing and fantastic things about our world but I think the motivations behind it are slightly askew.
  • 2. The feeling of your baby taking nourishment from your body for the first time is amazing and it remains the most touching moment of my life.
  • 3. At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there get healthy and then eat themselves to death – which is I suppose the right way to do it.

3 Anger

  • 1. Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.
  • 2. Our task of course is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think in fact that one could give that as a definition of revolution.
  • 3. I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls with whom they make up a sole family – a domestic church.
  • 2. Presently the Commission for Commemorating 350 Years of American Jewish History has been brought about to encourage and sponsor a variety of historical activities that advance our understanding of the American Jewish experience as it marks this milestone anniversary.
  • 3. Marriage is the most natural state of man and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Less is more.
  • 2. Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.
  • 3. I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
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