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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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Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process. – Lionel Trilling

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

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Imagination
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I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination. – Cornelia Funke

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Imagination

I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject – skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge. – Amy Waldman

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Imagination

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions. – William Hazlitt

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Imagination

Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think Im a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion. – Peter Sotos

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Imagination

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There are tens of thousands of interactions every single day across Afghanistan between the Afghan troops and International Security Assistance Force. On most of those, every single day we continue to deepen and broaden the relationship we seek. – John R. Allen

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The essence of America – that which really unites us – is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion – it is an idea – and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. – Condoleezza Rice

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I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death if I could not have one, I would have the other. – Harriet Tubman

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