Quote by Edmund Burke
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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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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. – Edmund Burke

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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. – Edmund Burke

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I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, Im in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim. – Juno Temple

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Id love to play more challenging roles, characters that would stretch my comfort zone and imagination. – Isabelle Fuhrman

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Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark. – Annie Dillard

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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in ones memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory. – Edgar Degas

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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment. – Joseph Addison

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A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer. – Karl Kraus

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The condition of an enlightened mind is a surrendered heart. – Alan Redpath

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Devotion

Its never been an issue for me – I dont want to go on a diet, I dont want to eat a Caesar salad with no dressing, why would I do that? I aint got time for this, just be happy and dont be stupid. If Ive got a boyfriend and he loves my body then Im not worried. – Adele

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