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The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

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Georg C. Lichtenberg
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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 do wish I could tell you my age but it's impossible. It keeps changing all the time.
  • 2. Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.
  • 3. After thirty a body has a mind of its own.

2 Amazing

  • 1. You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ whaddya know – I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.
  • 2. Arnold Schwarzenegger I don't know if you'd call him a great actor but he's amazing in terms of his presence and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him.
  • 3. The NFL has been an amazing page in this chapter of my life. I pray that all successive adventures offer me the same potential for growth success and most importantly fun.

3 Anger

  • 1. Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards for they are subtle and quick to anger.
  • 2. I'm not as angry as I used to be. But I can get in touch with that anger pretty quickly if I feel my space is being invaded or somebody is not treating me with the respect that I think I want.
  • 3. Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life I frequently precipitated what I feared most the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. On this important anniversary we must remember that while we have come a long way in eliminating barriers critical work remains to ensure all Americans can live up to their full potential.
  • 2. I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out she'll kill me.
  • 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 look at the steamboat the railroad the car the airplane – not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.
  • 2. I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.
  • 3. If you give people nothingness they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
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