George Meredith Quotes
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
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Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
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One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
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Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination shrank.
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The stance I took was there is no room for racial bias anywhere in sports. I believe that was basically all I said about it. Certainly I was cast as an abolitionist. Death threats came. Hate mail came.
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Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore.
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In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.
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In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too.
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I'm not afraid of death, but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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The fictive structure, my work, my imagination, my books are about the details, the huge construction about culture, Islamic culture or modern Turkey. They're all intertwined.
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When it comes to jump-starting the intricate machinery of recollection, there's nothing more effective than the scent of approaching death.
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I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.
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I think that you do get a little extra jolt of confidence when you win an Emmy.
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.
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I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.
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The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
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Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
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Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a new guild of craftsmen without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist!
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Death is the least civilized rite of passage.
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Imagination is greater than knowledge.
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It would have been a great disappointment to me if Vibration did not somewhere make itself felt, for all scientistic mystics either vibrate in person or find themselves resonant with cosmic vibrations; but I am happy to say that on page 266 Teilhard will be found to do so.
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You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
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The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.
