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• We all have only one life to live on Earth, and through television we have the choice of encouraging others to demean this life or to cherish it in creative, imaginative ways.

  Fred Rogers

  Choices, Creative, Television

  Fred Rogers (2004). “The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, Large Print Press

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• Curiosity, wonder, and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers...Restlessness and discontent are vital things... Intense experience and suffering instruct us in ways less intense emotions can never do.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Teacher, Passion, Curiosity

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• I have maintained a passionate interest in education, which leads me occasionally to make foolish and ill-considered remarks alleging that not everything is well in our schools. My main concern is that an over-emphasis on testing and league tables has led to a lack of time and freedom for a true, imaginative and humane engagement with literature.

  Philip Pullman

  School, League, Passionate

  "About Philip Pullman". Philip Pullman's personal site, www.philip-pullman.com.

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• In many ways, astrology, numerology and palmistry are corruptions of the occult because they have attempted to make a practice out of something that is essentially imaginative.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Practice, Astrology, Numerology

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• To put it in a nutshell, the Central and South American high cultures of antiquity were entirely worthy of comparison with what the Old World had achieved by the time of the Han, the Gupta, and the Hellenistic age. The fact is that the Amerindian high cultures were a human modality of their own, and those Spaniards who came among them first would have had the sensation, if they had ever heard of such literature, of treading in a world of imaginative science fiction. But it was real, and the Amerindian achievements deserve all our sympathy and praise.

  Joseph Needham

  Real, Aztec, Achievement

  Joseph Needham, Gwei-Djen Lu (1985). “Trans-Pacific Echoes and Resonances: Listening Once Again”, p.64, World Scientific

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• A professionally trained actress should be a better liar, wouldn't you think? But no. I am pathetically underachieved in that area. I can think of a great lie. I'm plenty imaginative. But before the words are even out of my mouth, there's a weird tickle of unease in my armpits, a horsefly of guilt lands on the back of my neck, and before I can stop myself, that gassy little bubble of truth belches out.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Liars, Lying, Thinking

  Kristin Chenoweth (2009). “A Little Bit Wicked: Life, Love, and Faith in Stages”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• At bottom, textual criticism for virtually all other ancient literature relies on creative conjectures, or imaginative guesses, at reconstructing the wording of the original. Not so with the New Testament.

  Daniel B. Wallace

  Ancient Literature, Creative, Criticism

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• Miss Caroline seemed unaware that the ragged, denim-shirted and floursack-skirted first grade, most of whom had chopped cotton and fed hogs from the time they were able to walk, were immune to imaginative literature.

  Harper Lee

  Missing, Denim, Literature

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill a Mockingbird (Enhanced Edition)”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• We cannot, even given our most imaginative efforts, construct a concept of Self that does not impute some causal influence of prior mental states on later ones.

  Jerome Bruner

  Self, Effort, Doe

  Jerome S. Bruner (1996). “The Culture of Education”, p.15, Harvard University Press

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• Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.

  Sylvia Plath

  Country, Forever, Mind

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.145, Anchor

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• Of all the hot liquors, I regard buttered rum as the worst. I believe that the drinking of it should be permitted only in the "Northwest Passage" and, even there, only by highly imaginative and overenthusiastic novelists.

  David A. Embury

  Drinking, Believe, Novelists

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• If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present.

  Franz Boas

  Intelligent, Equality, Emotional

  Franz Boas (2014). “Anthropology and Modern Life (Routledge Revivals)”, p.75, Routledge

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• There are things that are more important than the news and what’s happening today. There are these archetypes which are part of the human imagination since humans were presumably imaginative. And I think that’s what [people] find touching, these eternal ideas. It’s one of the things that makes fantasy something that tends to stand the test of time because we’re reading, 50 years later, The Lord of the Rings.

  Clive Barker

  Reading, Thinking, Ideas

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• Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Mind, Lists, Excited

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.209, Harvard University Press

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• The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Imagination, Tragedy, Experience

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

  Herman Wouk

  Book, Income, Fiction

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• A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

  George Santayana

  Happiness, Happy, Determination

  George Santayana (1945). “The Middle Span”

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• Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left is your belief in the imagination.

  Ben Okri

  Ghetto, Imagination, Vibrancy

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• Baum (Writer of THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ) was a true educator, and those who read his Oz books are often made what they were not-imaginative , tolerant, alert to wonders, life.

  Gore Vidal

  Book, Wizards, Wonder

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• The camera can push the new medium to its limits - and beyond. It is there - in the "beyond" - that the imaginative photographer will compete with the imaginative painter. Painting must return to the natural world from time to time for renewal of the artistic vision. The key sector of renewal of vision today is the new vistas revealed by science. Here photography, which is not only art but science also, stands on the firmest ground.

  Andreas Feininger

  Photography, Art, Keys

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• One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It appears that most persons who have achieved fame and success in the world of ideas are cynical about formal education. These people are a select few, who often achieved success in spite of their education, or even without it. As has been said, the clever largely educate themselves, those less able aren't sufficiently clever or imaginative to benefit much from education.

  Edward Gibbon

  Education, Clever, Ideas

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• So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Team, Play, Magic

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• Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx - first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a Government being Big Brother.

  Ronald Reagan

  Brother, Government, Ideas

  Ronald Reagan's Lettert to Richard Nixon, www.nytimes.com. October 27, 1984.

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• A desirable advertisement will be reasonable, but never dull ... original, but never self-conscious ... imaginative, but never misleading.

  Fairfax M. Cone

  Self, Dull, Advertising

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• Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life.

  Karen Armstrong

  Art, Effort, Creative

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