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Wit is the appearance the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity and the witty character of mysticism.

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Imagination,

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Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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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. None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
  • 2. Even from a very early age I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.
  • 3. I think you can't really escape any kind of spiritual education as a child whether it's New Age or Judaism or Buddhism or whatever it is. You can't escape it even if you completely disagree with it you still have it as a foundation that you base things off of.

2 Amazing

  • 1. New York is the coolest city. The place just never sleeps. It's amazing.
  • 2. If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together and the rock industry we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen – we're such an amazing race.
  • 3. Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8? That joke came off the top of my head and the top of my head ain't funny!

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance.
  • 2. Shock confusion fear anger grief and defiance. On Sept. 11 2001 and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance.
  • 3. I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically uh-uh. No.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. 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.
  • 2. More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
  • 3. The heart of marriage is memories and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns then your marriage is a gift from the gods.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.
  • 2. If architecture had nothing to do with art it would be astonishingly easy to build houses but the architect's task – his most difficult task – is always that of selecting.
  • 3. Architecture is a visual art and the buildings speak for themselves.
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