Quote by Dennis Potter
The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we ha

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose. – Dennis Potter

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Children can write poetry and then, unless theyre poets, they stop when reach puberty. – Dennis Potter

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The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in ones own imagination. – Dennis Potter

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Imagination
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The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not? – Dennis Potter

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Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. – Lord Chesterfield

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It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nations leading causes of preventable death, but its less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires. – Ed Markey

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I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn. – Polykarp Kusch

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Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge. – John Boyd Orr

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No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book. – Ellen Glasgow

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A wage hike is very hard to take away, but bonuses and profit-sharing can disappear very quickly in hard times…More people are realizing that bonuses look like raises, but really arent. – Al Bauman

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The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours. – Peggy Fleming

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He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him. – George Orwell

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