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The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The disclosure of a new fact, the leap forward, the conquest over yesterday's ignorance, is an act not of reason but of imagination, of intuition. — Charles Nicolle
To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know. — Horace Walpole
It is indeed better (as no one ever could deny) that men should be led to worship God by teaching, than that they should be… — Saint Augustine
Teenagers are people who act like babies if they're not treated like adults. — Harvey Kurtzman
No matter how sexually attracted a man might be toward other men, or a woman toward other women, and no matter how close the bonds… — Orson Scott Card
People from pre-sexual revolution and even from the 60s and the birth of the gay movement still define gay as two men or two women… — Dustin Lance Black
I hope for his sake that Tracy's apology will be accepted as sincere by his gay and lesbian coworkers at 30 Rock, without whom Tracy… — Tina Fey
Only in sex the noise sometimes stops. I say "sometimes". If you have become habitual in sex also, as husbands and wives become, then it… — Rajneesh
When you make sex to a person, woman or man, you think it unites you. For a moment it gives you the illusion of unity,… — Rajneesh
Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the… — Jerry Rubin
I think if my daughter was interested in acting, I would find ways for her to act in theater that has to do with her… — Helen Hunt
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them… — Gautama Buddha
Sex is essentially deep. We become what we do with our bodies, and there is no deeper act than sex. — Dietrich von Hildebrand
All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman. — Catharine MacKinnon
I've called on Congress to repeal the so-called Defense of Marriage Act to help end discrimination to help end discrimination against same-sex couples in this… — Barack Obama
Sex is not a mechanical act that fails for lack of technique, and it is not a performance by the male for the audience of… — Garrison Keillor
I am not saying renounce sex, I am saying transform it. It need not remain just biological: bring some spirituality to it. While making love,… — Rajneesh
This [climate change] is potentially so dangerous that we have to act strongly. Do we want to play Russian roulette with two bullets or one? — Nicholas Stern
The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency. — Bette Davis

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