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The travel writer seeks the world we have lost — the lost valleys of the imagination.

— Alexander Cockburn

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No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.

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An active imagination may find a bad tendency arising out of every transaction between imperfect morals.

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Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination, and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.

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