"One of the things that ultimately led me to leave mathematics and go into political science was thinking I could prevent nuclear war."
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"Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.“
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"Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it."
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"Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind it is a way of engaging reality."
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"Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them."
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"With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour."
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"Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination."
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