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“It is difficult to say which is the greatest evil--to have too violent passions, or to be wholly devoid of them. Controlled with firmness, guided by discretion, and hallowed by the imagination, the passions are the vivifiers and quickeners of our being. Without passion there can be no energy of character. Indeed, the passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways, and dangerous only in one--through their excess.”

Way Character Passion Evil Energy Difficult Imagination Fire Dangerous Thousand Violent Controlled Excess Discretion Firmness No Energy

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“Some princes are born in palaces. Some are born in mangers. But a few are born in the imagination, out of scraps of history and hope... Barack Hussein Obama did not win because of the color of his skin. Nor did he win in spite of it. He won because at a very dangerous moment in the life of a still young country, more people than have ever spoken before came together to try to save it. And that was a victory all its own.”

People Trying Stills Country Moments Together Young Winning Born Imagination Dangerous Color Victory Skins Barack Spite Hussein Palaces Scrap

Author:Nancy Gibbs

“One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the opposite; civilization is a rarity, attained with difficulty and easily lost. The normal state of humanity is barbarism, just as the normal surface of the planet is salt water. Land looms large in our imagination and civilization in history books, only because sea and savagery are to us less interesting.”

Source: Image and Imagination

“Flattery is an ensnaring quality, and leaves a very dangerous impression. It swells a man's imagination, entertains his vanity, and drives him to a doting upon his own person.”

Men Persons Imagination Quality Dangerous Impression Vanity Flattery

Author:Jeremy Collier

“We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still. Lovers, farmers, and artists have one thing in common, at least - a fear of 'dry spells,' dormant periods in which we do no blooming, internal droughts only the waters of imagination and psychic release can civilize.”

Stills Artist Water Imagination Common One Thing Dangerous Lovers Periods Rivers Release Dry Internals Spells Farmers Psychics Careless Drought Dormant Blooming

Book:The solace of open spaces

Source: The solace of open spaces

“In The Jaguar's Children we enter the dangerous borderlands between countries and generations; myth and magic; human community and the vast, infinitely mysterious, wild environment. Here, John Vaillant proves that his heart and imagination are as expansive and fierce as his radiant intellect. Never have I encountered a writer with more energy or compassion.”

Humans Heart Children Country Energy Community Imagination Compassion Environment Generations Magic Dangerous Prove Intellect Myth Mysterious Fierce Radiant Jaguars

Author:Melanie Rae Thon

“Charity is a cop-out so traditionally female in its apparent self-effacement that there seems resonant comfort in it. We're no longer supposed to serve the imaginations of men who have dominated us. We are to give up ourselves instead to those whose suffering is greater than our own. Looking down is just as distorting as looking up and as dangerous in perpetuating hierarchies.”

Men Giving Self Seems Suffering Imagination Greater Dangerous Comfort Giving Up Female Charity Cop Hierarchy Looking Down Perpetuating

Book:A Hot-Eyed Moderate: Essays

Source: A Hot-Eyed Moderate: Essays

“To think of writing poetry as a "career" is not only ridiculous, it's dangerous. To the imagination. To the way one thinks of art. The reason poetry as a genre is so special is because it cannot be made a commodity.”

Thinking Way Writing Art Made Reason Imagination Careers Special Dangerous Ridiculous Genre Commodity Writing Poetry Genre Is

Author:Cate Marvin

“The Eucharist has been preempted and redefined in dualistic thinking that leaves the status quo of the world untouched, so congregations can take the meal without raising questions of violence; the outcome is a "colonized imagination" that is drained of dangerous hope.”

Thinking World Has Beens Imagination Violence Dangerous Outcomes Meals Status Quo Eucharist Congregation Drained

Author:Walter Brueggemann

“There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive.”

Imagination Dangerous Dangerous Things Subversive

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“Also with that money comes the idea, "Let your imagination run wild." Which I think is a very dangerous thing. I think it's dangerous because you can get into pretty wacky territory. There are things that are too crazy.”

Thinking Ideas Running Imagination Crazy Dangerous Territory Dangerous Things Wacky

Author:Taika Waititi

“If you happen to capture my imagination for some reason and I decide to write about you and you don't like what I wrote about you, which is entirely possible, then yes, I'm a dangerous writer.”

Ifs Writing Reason Happens Imagination Dangerous Capture My Imagination

Author:Truman Capote