"imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind ..."

-- Margaret Oliphant

#Compassion Quotes #Imagination Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I think in a sense seeing how films have changed me and seeing how fiction moves me more than facts in many ways, and I think that I can talk for many people that fiction moves us more than real life, it certainly helps us to set forth on this a journey of a utopia, which can never be achieved.”
“There's a lot of hidden gems in the UK. You sometimes have to dig deep to find them, but there's still a lot of great guitar bands out there. So, in a way it makes you appreciate it more, but then a lot of bands do go missing also.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“Capablanca did not apply himself to opening theory (in which he never therefore achieved much), but delved deeply into the study of end-games and other simple positions which respond to technique rather than to imagination.”
“A linguist would be shocked to learn that if a set is not closed this does not mean that it is open, or again that "E is dense in E" does not mean the same thing as "E is dense in itself".”

Source : John Edensor Littlewood (1953). “A mathematicians's miscellany”
“As I look around, I get this sinking feeling that we're off track, that there's something sick in the soul of our country. I examine the fruit that's hanging on the tree of America, and I can see that it's rotting. And that concerns me deeply.”
“When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another - and ourselves.”
“Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.”
“The conflict with Islam has, after all, existed throughout European history.”

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