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The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.

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Imagination,

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Henry Ward Beecher
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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. If you age with somebody you go through so many roles – you're lovers friends enemies colleagues strangers you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is if you're with your soulmate.
  • 2. When a noble life has prepared old age it is not decline that it reveals but the first days of immortality.
  • 3. We were really grown up for our age and it was an incredible special band.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Whenever I listen to a children's orchestra I learn. They feel everything they enjoy everything they have amazing energy.
  • 2. My siblings and I were friends with the boys who would become our stepbrothers – we grew up on the same street. I feel very special to have these amazing people in my life and if we hadn't all moved into this big house together I think I would have missed out on that because we would have drifted apart.
  • 3. The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.

3 Anger

  • 1. Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.
  • 2. Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom because you're on the front lines.
  • 3. Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

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. 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.
  • 3. I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.
  • 2. The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture and the language that we use about politics it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.
  • 3. You might say that when you step inside you're entering a honorific space but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us.
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