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Fools act on imagination without knowledge pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

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Alfred North Whitehead
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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. I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7 my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.
  • 2. You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
  • 3. I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

2 Amazing

  • 1. As a planning board commissioner I have to review the applications for development throughout the city and the bulk of those applications have been for the waterfront. I think the progress the waterfront has made is amazing.
  • 2. Stevie Wonder is just one of those guys that completely delivers everything that you want to be true about Stevie Wonder. He's an amazing human being and the fairytale exists with that man.
  • 3. It's amazing. I can't believe how brilliant the whole thing is – my daughter Georgia is just wonderful.

3 Anger

  • 1. The quickest way to defuse fear or insecurity or anger is usually humor. I think comics figure that out quickly and once you figure it out you think 'Hey if I can do this and get paid that would be kind of cool.'
  • 2. I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues.
  • 3. I'm really busted up over this and I'm very very sorry to those people in the audience the blacks the Hispanics whites – everyone that was there that took the brunt of that anger and hate and rage and how it came through.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there take your vows and be married to them for the rest of your life.
  • 2. The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.
  • 3. Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening May 15 1876 at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.

5 Architecture

  • 1. A great building must begin with the unmeasurable must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.
  • 2. In addressing a task one almost always has several possible options sometimes only a few and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.
  • 3. Of course I know very little about architecture and the older I get the less I know.
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