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Quote by Martha Gellhorn
It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to at

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination. – Martha Gellhorn

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Gradually I came to realize that people will more readily swallow lies than truth, as if the taste of lies was homey, appetizing: a habit. – Martha Gellhorn

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Truth
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Martha Gellhorn
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After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat. – Martha Gellhorn

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Faith
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I certainly know there are people in positions of power in the business who lack imagination and, perhaps as a result of that, think of me as David. But I wouldnt really want to work with those people, you know? – Michael C. Hall

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Imagination

The conscious process is reflected in the imagination the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling. – William Irwin Thompson

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Imagination

The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination. – James A. Michener

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Imagination

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, Just watch! – Bill Bradley

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Genuine ignorance is… profitable because it is likely to be accompanied by humility, curiosity, and open mindedness; whereas ability to repeat catch-phrases, cant terms, familiar propositions, gives the conceit of learning and coats the mind with varnish waterproof to new ideas. – John Dewey

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Labour was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. – Adam Smith

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I dont paint things. I only paint the difference between things. – Henri Matisse

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