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It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

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Imagination,

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Alexander McCall Smith
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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. You just never know when you're living in a golden age.
  • 2. I vividly remember being 14. That was the age when I started to get happy: I started being a writer and stopped being a loser.
  • 3. It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries but is dead to all the pleasures.

2 Amazing

  • 1. To be able to sit in Donald Trump's apartment and talk about the future of corporate real estate was amazing.
  • 2. I'm still a Welsh girl at heart so I'm staying in the U.K. for the Olympics it's such an exciting time for Britain so it's amazing to be a part of it.
  • 3. They were so good that you just had to sing the song to them once and they got it. It's amazing. Sometimes it didn't come out the way you wanted but it was good.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger's not a good emotion.
  • 2. The American people are smart. They've gotten sick of the predictable hyperpartisan talking points and canned anger.
  • 3. The poor monkey quietly seated on the ground seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. My last trip to New Orleans was for the fifth anniversary of Katrina and I had the awesome opportunity to bring my family down. We all worked on a house together and met some of the families.
  • 2. So while an incredible amount of progress has been made on this fifth anniversary I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you – and fight alongside you – until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back all the way.
  • 3. A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love trust partnership tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.

5 Architecture

  • 1. You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth at it's best.
  • 2. Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.
  • 3. They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
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