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| As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope. |
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| comfort was allowed to come to them rare, welcome, unsought: a gift like joy. |
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| He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral. |
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| I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. |
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| I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant. |
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| If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. |
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| In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void. |
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| It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope. |
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| It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end |
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| It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. |
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| Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. |
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| Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. |
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| My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. |
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| Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner. |
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| Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty. |
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| The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so. |
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| The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one's true identity in both |
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| The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little. If this machine gave you the truth immediately, you would not recognize it, |
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