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Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind


Margaret Oliphant

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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The power to command your imagination faculty to go haywire is by learning to read voraciously.
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SUSANE COLASANTI Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.
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MARGARET THATCHER Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
MARGARET THATCHER Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and pla...
MARGARET MITCHELL Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doi...
MARGARET THATCHER Make up your mind to this. If you are different, you are isolated, not only from people of your own ...
MARGARET MITCHELL Touch comes before sight, before speech. It is the first language and the last, and it always tells ...
MARGARET ATWOOD Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.
MARGARET ATWOOD Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it i...
MARGARET MEAD Longed for him. Got him. Shit.
MARGARET ATWOOD Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.
MARGARET MEAD If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you ...
MARGARET ATWOOD But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind eve...
MARGARET ATWOOD I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed an...
MARGARET ATWOOD I wonder which is preferable, to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until yo...
MARGARET ATWOOD Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
MARGARET THATCHER If i thought this would never happen again I would die.
But this is wrong, nobody dies from lac...
MARGARET ATWOOD Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
MARGARET MITCHELL Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic...
MARGARET ATWOOD That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn't even an...
MARGARET ATWOOD There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet a...
MARGARET ATWOOD Aunt Mercy put down her tiles, one at a time. I-T-C-H-I-N.
Aunt Grace leaned closer to the boar...
MARGARET STOHL We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of pr...
MARGARET ATWOOD But remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withhold or bestow it...
MARGARET ATWOOD