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The imagination is mans power over nature. - Wallace Stevens

The imagination is mans power over nature. – Wallace Stevens

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To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind. – Wallace Stevens

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Imagination
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Wallace Stevens
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Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow. – Wallace Stevens

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Weakness
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Wallace Stevens
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Other Quotes from
Imagination
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To put up a show is to face lifes injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination. – Luigi Barzini

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Imagination

Some stories are true that never happened. – Elie Weisel

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Imagination

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it. – Mason Cooley

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Imagination

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest. – Andrew Bird

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Imagination

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To choose dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid. – Christopher Hitchens

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Experience

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945. – Queen Elizabeth II

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Peace

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt. – Walter Scott

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power

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories. – Proverb

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