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Quote by Jean Giraudoux
We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. – Jean Giraudoux

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When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome. – Jean Giraudoux

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Men
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Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom. – Jean Giraudoux

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Education
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Another side to me is this very sexual being. When I look back on my life, its always been there. Its been there since I was 10 years old, having the imagination that I had. – Janet Jackson

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Imagination

My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical. – Michael Tippett

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Imagination

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains. – Anne Sullivan Macy

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Imagination

I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid. – Janet Jackson

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Imagination

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Writing, Im convinced, should be a subversive activity – frowned on by the authorities – and not one cooed over and praised beyond common sense by some teacher. – Dan Simmons

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I am writing this at my standing desk, which is against the window. The window offers a pleasant prospect over the lime trees and sun-bathed hills — delightful natural scenery. – Friedrich Nietzsche, letter to sister Elisabeth, 1862, wording slightly altered

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I need more raw experience. Ive read and watched a lot of things, but I havent done a lot of things. – Marc Andreessen

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The goal of life: simple but not empty. – Terri Guillemets

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