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Generally speaking a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

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Imagination,

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Henry David Thoreau
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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. Your body actually reminds you about your age and your injuries – the body has a stronger memory than your mind.
  • 2. I can't look in the mirror and look at fake things. I just can't. I'd rather age.
  • 3. It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private capital the idea of privatizing highways and airports and other bits of our transportation infrastructure made a certain kind of sense.
  • 2. They are amazing kids so we let them make decisions but also have discipline.
  • 3. People never cease to amaze me.

3 Anger

  • 1. Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else you are the one who gets burned.
  • 2. I did not want to put myself on the line as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive possessive – and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger – or my own reputation.
  • 3. There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. You will reciprocally promise love loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today before God you formulate.
  • 2. I did that Dior Couture 60th anniversary show in July. It took so long to get ready I think I would have rather been watching.
  • 3. It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
  • 2. Less is more.
  • 3. I left science then I went into art but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.
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