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The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world with all its corruption and evils and cruelties and the splendid world of our imagination.

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Imagination,

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Richard Hofstadter
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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. What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties mental and physical but the burden of one's memories.
  • 2. I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
  • 3. Just as we reject racism sexism ageism and heterosexism we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race sex age or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version but then you write the version that you can write.
  • 2. The last real movie stars were probably Redford and Newman. And things were different then. There wasn't this amazing amount of magazines and information about them.
  • 3. It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

3 Anger

  • 1. I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues.
  • 2. Fear is the only true enemy born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.
  • 3. How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. I've been sober for two-and-a-half years My children are happy. In August my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour.
  • 2. 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.
  • 3. The heart of marriage is memories and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns then your marriage is a gift from the gods.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
  • 2. There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.
  • 3. Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.
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