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There is a boundary to mens passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination. – Edmund Burke

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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. – Edmund Burke

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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations. – Edmund Burke

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The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible. – Alexander Chase

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Every day the eye is subject to a thousand tiny shocks as a thousand industries compete for the eye-kick, the visual hook that will lock the consumer into product for that crucial second where the tiny – or not so tiny – leap of the imagination is made. – Graham Joyce

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It will take some time before a politician will capture the imagination of the American people and have the vision and understanding to do what is necessary for a better future for the people of America and the world. – David Korten

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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever. – Eddie Izzard

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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely happier for it. – Thomas Jefferson

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As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time. – Tom Waits

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A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasnt the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman. – Robert Johnson

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