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

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Obscurity
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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

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The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Imagination

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential – the imagination. – Lawrence Durrell

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Imagination

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence. – Norman Podhoretz

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Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. – Albert Einstein

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I hardly teach. Its more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process. – Fay Godwin

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In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention. – Thomas Aquinas

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Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by. – Carl Sandburg

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The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that—an encounter with a truth that has sunk to the bottom of the heart, that wants to be found, wants to be spoken, wants to be elevated into the realm of sacredness. – Sue Monk Kidd

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