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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

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Imagination,

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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Growing up I didn't have a lot of toys and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination – think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

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For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act or fail to act not because of will as is so commonly believed but because of imagination.

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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 want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.
  • 2. As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well as it turned out I never wrote a great novel sadly and I never converted to Catholicism happily but I did do one thing he did. That is in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.
  • 3. To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.
  • 2. I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father – he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression thought he could be a movie star. So go figure you know?
  • 3. I like making pies. I have a bunch of fruit trees in my backyard. My loquat tree sprouted and I like making loquat pie. They're really hard to peel and everything and it took me forever but they make the best pies. They're amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. Another night I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger.
  • 2. Keep cool anger is not an argument.
  • 3. When you start suppressing feelings at an early age it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. 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.
  • 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. Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward and you will have the truth about him.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Architecture is a slow business and city planning even slower.
  • 2. Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.
  • 3. The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
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