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Quote by Adam Smith
This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts. – Adam Smith

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Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty. – Adam Smith

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Resentment seems to have been given us by nature for a defense, and for a defense only! It is the safeguard of justice and the security of innocence. – Adam Smith

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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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Its through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others. – Alexander McCall Smith

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I do a lot of curiosity buying I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. – Bruce Springsteen

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I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, its a way to get information and find out whats going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination. – Breckin Meyer

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