Leopold II - Het Hele Verhaal (Aflevering 1) https://odysee.com/@BelgianCongo:3/Leopold-II-Het-Hele-Verhaal-Aflevering-1:1 Prince Leopold in a letter to his brother Prince Philippe and sister Princess Carlota, on being received by the Austrian court to meet his future bride 'Marie Henriette of Austria'.
Quotes about imagination
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“Let death be what takes us, not lack of imagination.”
On What really matter at the end of life in "On What really matter at the end of life" https://www.ted.com/talks/bj_miller_what_really_matters_at_the_end_of_life on TED.COM (2015 March)
On her work In the Midst of Winter in “INTERVIEWS: Isabel Allende” https://bookpage.com/interviews/21986-isabel-allende-fiction#.XajuoPlKjcs in BookPage (2017 Oct 31)
“Some people imagine that death is the only destination of life.”
“We imagine that all angels are automatically musicians at heart.”
On how poetry has given him insight into his sexuality in “‘Every poem is political’: Danez Smith, the YouTube star shaking up poetry” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/28/danez-smith-interview-poetry-dont-call-us-dead-dear-white-america in The Guardian (2018 Jan 28)
As quoted in "To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before author Jenny Han on watching her book become a phenomenon" in Vox (4 June 2019) https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/6/4/18648808/to-all-the-boys-ive-loved-before-jenny-han-interview
How Dangerous Are Atomic Weapons?, 1947
“You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.”
No. 536
Aphorisms on Man (1788)
Source: All the King's Men' A search for the colonial ideas of some advisers and "accomplices" of Leopold II (1853-1892). (Hannes Vanhauwaert), Emile Banning (1836-1898): The Don Quichotte of the ‘liberal civilization’ in Congo, A romantic associate of Leopold II. http://www.ethesis.net/leopold_II/leopold_II.htm#_ftn194 CROKAERT, P. Brialmont, 23.
Source: National Geographic https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/travel/2020/09/notes-from-an-author-irene-sabatini-on-finding-inspiration-in-zimbabwes-landscapes
“You will hear things of Al Qaeda that you never imagined.”
Source: Kronos US v Sulaiman Abu Ghayth Statement https://kronosadvisory.com/Kronos_US_v_Sulaiman_Abu_Ghayth_Statement.1.pdf (1st March 2013)
Source: 13 December 1941, quoted in Hitler's Table Talk, 1941–1944
Source: Kevin Costner and Madeline Carroll Interview – SWING VOTE https://collider.com/kevin-costner-and-madeline-carroll-interview-swing-vote/ (July 29, 2008)
Source: The Movie Experience: Conversation with actress Shima Iwashita and director Masahiro Shinoda/Advice to Students http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/Shinoda_Iwashita/shinoda_iwashita5.html (February 27, 1999)
Source: "Bob Inglis: How I changed my mind about climate change" https://www.npr.org/2021/12/03/1061214253/bob-inglis-how-i-changed-my-mind-about-climate-change, NPR (December 3, 2021)
Source: — Chetan Bhagat (@chetan_bhagat) 2021 at Twitter https://twitter.com/chetan_bhagat/status/1387322830266814467
“[W]e may... find more common ground than we currently imagine.”
Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes (1990), Approaching Abortion Anew
Book IV, 1005
Metaphysics
Original: (el) τὸ γὰρ αὐτὸ ἅμα ὑπάρχειν τε καὶ μὴ ὑπάρχειν ἀδύνατον τῷ αὐτῷ καὶ κατὰ τὸ αὐτό (καὶ ὅσα ἄλλα προσδιορισαίμεθ᾽ ἄν, ἔστω προσδιωρισμένα πρὸς τὰς λογικὰς δυσχερείας): αὕτη δὴ πασῶν ἐστὶ βεβαιοτάτη τῶν ἀρχῶν: ἔχει γὰρ τὸν εἰρημένον διορισμόν. ἀδύνατον γὰρ ὁντινοῦν ταὐτὸν ὑπολαμβάνειν εἶναι καὶ μὴ εἶναι, καθάπερ τινὲς οἴονται λέγειν Ἡράκλειτον.
Source: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0051%3Abook%3D4%3Asection%3D1005b
“A mind that can imagine… can realize.”
Original: (it) Una mente che può immaginare... può realizzare.
Source: prevale.net
Circulated on the Internet, this is an amended version of a quote from Eckhart's sermon iusti vivent in aeternum: There are simple people who imagine they are going to see God as if He were standing here and they there. This is not true. God and I are one.
Middle High German: “Sumlîche einveltige liute wænent, sie süln got sehen, als er dâ stande und sie hie. Des enist niht. Got und ich wir sîn ein.”
Disputed
Source: Fortunatus the Pessimist (1892), Urania in Act IV, sc. ii; p. 178.
Tonga
Source: Peeni Henare (2022) cited in: " Tonga airport runway being cleared of ash as Australian planes ready to depart https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/20/tonga-airport-runway-being-cleared-of-ash-as-australian-planes-ready-to-depart" in The Guardian, 19 January 2022.
Source: A Different Kind of Teacher: Solving the Crisis of American Schooling, Berkeley Hills Books (2000) p. 97
Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters (2006)
Source: Leadership at the Point of the Bayonet: Ten Principles for Success, p. 293
Books on Culture and Barbarism, Seeing the Invisible: On Kandinsky (1988)
Source: Michel Henry, Seeing the invisible: On Kandinsky, Continuum, 2009, p. 107
https://www.mmegi.bw/sports/thank-you-amantle/news Thank You Amantle, Mmegi Online, Friday 15 October 2021, Retrieved 16 November 2021
"Simply the Greatest" (2020)
Source: The Night We Buried Road Dog (1993), p. 469
“You’ve just described nine-tenths of human history.”
Open and Shut (p. 265)
Short fiction, Belladonna Nights and Other Stories (2021)
Source: Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life Without God (2002), Chapter 3, “Emancipation and Ethics” (p. 14)
Source: Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life Without God (2002), Chapter 3, “Emancipation and Ethics” (p. 12)
Speaking on his plans for the Dio album Master of the Moon, interview https://ronniejamesdiosite.com/NewsInterviews/Interviews/metalmastersJAN04/MMjan04RJD.html, Metal Masters, January 2004
2021, April 2021, Remarks by President Biden on the Shooting in Boulder, Colorado
From a speech to the United Nations on 4 October 1984 https://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2007/10/SANKARA/15203
Remarks of President Joe Biden – State of the Union Address As Prepared for Delivery (March 1, 2022) https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/03/01/remarks-of-president-joe-biden-state-of-the-union-address-as-delivered/
2022, March 2022, State of the Union Address
13 August 1793, Presenting his education plan to the National Convention
Misc Quotes
“The worst thing about shame is that we imagine we are the only ones to experience it.”
Quoted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 184, ed. Tom Burns and Jeffrey Hunter (Gale, 2004), p. 164, and in The Poetics of Childhood by Roni Natov (Routledge, 2014), p. 220
Shame (1997)
“A dream? With the mind you imagine it, with the will you realize it.”
Original: Un sogno? Con la mente lo immagini, con la volontà lo realizzi.
Source: prevale.net
#Imagination and reality
Original: Nell'arte non basta avere talento. Un vero artista con la mente non deve mai mancare di immaginazione ed ordinare al proprio corpo di eseguire, ricordare e poi archiviare.
Source: prevale.net
“Whatever you want to create: imagine it. Realize it. Perfect it. Define it.”
Original: Qualsiasi cosa tu voglia creare: immaginala. Realizzala. Perfezionala. Definiscila.
Source: prevale.net
“The woman loves to provoke who can dominate her imagination.”
Original: La donna ama provocare chi riesce a dominare la sua immaginazione.
Source: prevale.net
Original: Fate molta attenzione nell'esprimere alcune parole. Spesso hanno un forte impatto emotivo su una persona e possono ferirla più di quanto la vostra mente possa immaginare.
Source: prevale.net
Original: La capacità di immaginazione consiste nel realizzare ciò che si può immaginare. Qualsiasi creazione ha bisogno di immaginazione.
Source: prevale.net
Original: I pensieri spiacevoli della giornata spesso si riflettono nei sogni, durante il riposo... liberate la vostra immaginazione migliore.
Source: prevale.net
“In art, without imagination, nothing extraordinary has ever been created.”
Original: In arte, senza immaginazione, non è mai stato creato nulla di straordinario.
Source: prevale.net
Original: L'irraggiungibile ispira sogni e immaginazione: il desiderio nasce dal bisogno di infrangere le regole, sentendosi costantemente in bilico tra la volontà e il limite.
Source: prevale.net