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It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and

It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination. – Robert South

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The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words. – Robert South

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God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress. – Robert South

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When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination. – Tim Berners Lee

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It is not enough to know your craft – you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more. – Edouard Manet

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That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow. – George Berkeley

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When we were filming The Darkest Hour, we didnt even know what the aliens were going to look like, we didnt even have a graphic reference. So it was definitely a big challenge to sell those kind of extreme moments when youre just generating them from your own imagination. – Olivia Thirlby

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