In the Imagination Age, we are attempting to create the future we can imagine.
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The continuing fascination with the site is as much based upon what it represents and the idea of Stonehenge in the imagination, as it is upon its tangible aspects.
Misty and mystical, populated by an abundance of wild horses and a very small handful of hardy souls, Sable Island has long loomed large in the imagination of sailors and adventurers.
At that point, the word trillion was rarely mentioned in the news and resided more in the imagination of children, alongside zillions and gazillions, as an expression of something on an enormous scale.
Only difference being that the idea was born in the imagination of the Sheikh of Yemen, rather than scrawled on a napkin following a couple of bottles of wine at a San Francisco restaurant.
People with vision who can connect with other cultures on a deep level are needed in the Imagination Age, as are those who can do a lot with a little and communicate their ideas with clarity and passion.
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In many ways, China is coming to occupy the same place in the American imagination that Japan did in the 1980s.
Indeed, the government's relief efforts were eclipsed in the popular imagination by the heroic ministrations of such charitable groups as the Buddhist Tzu-Chi foundation.
Bacuit Bay, home to an archipelago of 45 islands bordering the South China Sea, occupies a place in the Filipino psychogeography like Alaska's in the American imagination: an unspoiled national Eden that few citizens ever get around to visiting.
And to the extent that it is Rand's--not their--case for capitalism that sticks in the popular imagination, it might enhance--not diminish--the allure of government over free market solutions to social issues such as health coverage for the uninsured.
Woodstock remains one of the events that continues to define the 1960s in the popular imagination.
"If something is not in the popular imagination, it does not exist, " says Searles.
In the popular imagination, the USPTO regularly issues what some people call Rumplestiltskin Patents.
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Yet in the popular imagination there is no equivalent yet of a Route 66.
It helps the Democrats, who are identified, in the popular imagination, with empathy for workers and have-nots.
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Framing everyday intimacies on a terrifyingly grand scale, Glodell blasts open a new dimension in the cinematic imagination.
Language is powerful and, to create a lasting movement that sticks in the popular imagination, you need the right words.
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"Meekness, that attitude so tied to patience, to listening, and contemplation, sometimes in the collective imagination it is confused with weakness, " the pontiff wrote.
There had been other rivalries that never succeeded in sparking the imagination.
In the popular imagination runaway juries routinely impose huge non-economic damages (to punish a defendant or make up for a plaintiff's suffering).
It is no accident that by the time Delia Bacon entered the field, Shakespeare had become almost a god in the public imagination.
Glitch takes place in the shared imagination of 11 ancient giants.
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Europe and referendums have become ineluctably linked in the Tory imagination.
Richard's story stayed alive in the public imagination over the years.
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Throughout your history Americans have led insurrections in the human imagination, have summoned revolutionary times through your belief that there is no such thing as an impossible endeavour.
He was the darling of the Twickenham crowd and no-one in a team full of rugby heroes was able to capture the imagination of supporters in the way he did.
Now it's Europe's turn, with demonstrations over the weekend against another piece of anti-piracy legislation Acta, the anti-counterfeiting trade agreement. (By the way, there is a good explanation of all of the various anti-piracy measures here.) Now, for all the online anger, this is not an issue that has really caught the public imagination in the UK. The crowd at London's anti-Acta demo numbered no more than a few hundred.
But the two television series that really secured Portmeirion's place in the popular British imagination were 1960s sci-fi drama The Prisoner (with the village making an eerily jovial setting for the Kafkaesque story), and the more recent Cold Feet, the romantic comedy series whose final episode in 2003 turned Portmeirion into a popular wedding venue overnight.
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