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... imagination . And when we describe it as I shall do , it becomes plain that imagination is a specifically human gift . To imagine is the characteristic act , not of the poet's mind , or the painter's , or the scientist's , but of the ...
... imagination . And when we describe it as I shall do , it becomes plain that imagination is a specifically human gift . To imagine is the characteristic act , not of the poet's mind , or the painter's , or the scientist's , but of the ...
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... imagination works equally with them all , and that is why I call them all images . Indeed , the most important images for human beings are simply words , which are abstract symbols . Animals do not have words , in our sense : there is ...
... imagination works equally with them all , and that is why I call them all images . Indeed , the most important images for human beings are simply words , which are abstract symbols . Animals do not have words , in our sense : there is ...
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... imagination that day chimed with nature , and made a harmony . We shall hear an echo of that har- mony on the day when we land on the moon , because it will be not a technical but an imaginative triumph , that reaches back to the ...
... imagination that day chimed with nature , and made a harmony . We shall hear an echo of that har- mony on the day when we land on the moon , because it will be not a technical but an imaginative triumph , that reaches back to the ...
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PERSONAL REPORT | 1 |
Maya Angelou High School Graduation | 11 |
Bernadette Devlin Politics in the University | 21 |
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