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Quote by George Santayana
The degree in which a poets imagination dominates reality is, in t

The degree in which a poets imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. – George Santayana

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We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible. – George Santayana

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It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care. – Paul Farmer

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My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived. – John Adams

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It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination. – Robert South

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A poet ought not to pick natures pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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