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Quote by Lionel Trilling
There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination. – Lionel Trilling

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We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian. – Lionel Trilling

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Paradise, Utopia
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Lionel Trilling
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Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood. – Lionel Trilling

Category:
Obscurity
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Lionel Trilling
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We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us. – Lionel Trilling

Category:
Equality
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Lionel Trilling
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Imagination
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I had a good imagination and I still have one a child-like imagination that hasnt gone away. – Laura Linney

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Imagination

Anyone who can be replaced by a machine deserves to be. – Dennis Gunton

Category:
Imagination

Imagination creates reality. – Richard Wagner

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Imagination

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that were disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning. – Richard Powers

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Imagination

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Vigorous enforcement of copyrights themselves is an important part of the picture. But I dont think that expanding the legal definition of copyright outside of actual copyright infringement is the right move. – Edward Felten

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legal

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them. – Plato

Category:
Men

Children are Gods Apostles, sent forth, day by day, to preach of love, and hope, and peace. – James Russell Lowell

Category:
God

The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human. Meander if you want to get to town. – Michael Ondaatje

Category:
Trust