Rene Descartes Quotes
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We all have stories for a reason, and if we keep them to ourselves, I don't feel they would help anybody.
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We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.
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A lion is called a 'king of beasts' obviously for a reason.
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My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.
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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
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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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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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The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
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So the proposition that the ideal parents for any child are its biological parents is a statement with which we can all agree in the generality, but which does not apply, for one reason or another, in many particular circumstances.
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We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.
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Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
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I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.
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There is no reason for me to show my collection in New York, because it's not about craft and technique there.
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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
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Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.
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Wipe out the imagination. Stop pulling the strings. Confine thyself to the present. ...Divide and distribute every object into the causal formal and the material. ...Let the wrong which is done by a man stay there where the wrong was done.
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They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.
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My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.
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Through winter-time we call on spring, And through the spring on summer call, And when the abounding hedges ring Declare that winter's best of all: And after that there's nothing good Because the spring time has not come- Not know that what disturbs our blood Is but its longing for the tomb.
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Reason is nothing without imagination.
