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imagination." | |
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Pearl S. Buck
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| "Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow." | |
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Aesop
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| "Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst" | |
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Marcus Valerius Martialis
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| "Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative." | |
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Oscar Wilde
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| "Do not quench your inspiration and your inmagination; do not become
the slave of your model." | |
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Vincent van Gogh
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| "Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of
imagination." | |
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John Dewey
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| "Fear not those who argue but those who dodge." | |
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Baroness Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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| "First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas
and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning,
as you will observe, is in your imagination." | |
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Napoleon Hill
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| "Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that,
if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not
write the paragraph at all." | |
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Franklin Pierce Adams
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| "He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
Imagination is the eye of the soul." | |
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Joseph Joubert
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| "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter." | |
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John Keats
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| "Illusion is the first of all pleasures." | |
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Francois Voltaire
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| "Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and
happiness, which is everything in this world." | |
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Blaise Pascal
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| "Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is
more powerful in the mature than in the young." | |
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William Somerset Maugham
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| "Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science
can match." | |
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Ingrid Bengis
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| "Imagination is the highest kite one can fly." | |
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Lauren Bacall
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| "Imagination rules the world." | |
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Napoléon Bonaparte
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| "IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint
ownership." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the
heart; it being much more sensitive." | |
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Henry David Thoreau
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| "Live out of your imagination, not your history." | |
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Stephen R. Covey
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| "Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence." | |
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Henry Louis Mencken
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| "No one feels another"s grief, no one understands another"s joy.
People imagine that they can reach one another. In reality they only pass
each other by." | |
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Franz Peter Schubert
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| "Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent
one." | |
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Albert Einstein
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| "Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them." | |
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Ralph N. Gerard
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| "So you see, imagination needs moodling?long, inefficient, happy
idling, dawdling and puttering." | |
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Brenda Ueland
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| "The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource,
adding color and suspense to all our life." | |
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Daniel J. Boorstin
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| "The entrepreneur is essentially a visualizer and an actualizer. He
can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to
make it happen." | |
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Robert Schwartz
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| "The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the
senses." | |
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Leonardo da Vinci
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| "The first of our senses which we should take care never to let rust
through disuse is that sixth sense, the imagination. I mean the wide-open
eye which leads us to see truth more vividly, to apprehend more broadly,
to concern ourselves more deeply, to be, all our life long, sensitive and
awake to the powers and responsibilities given to us as human
beings." | |
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Christopher Fry
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| "The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all
compact." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so
few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one
composer." | |
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Charles F. Ketterling
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| "The Possible"s slow fuse is lit By the Imagination." | |
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Emily Dickinson
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| "The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and
instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are." | |
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Samuel Johnson
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| "There are two worlds; the world that we can measure with line and
rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts And imaginations." | |
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James Henry Leigh Hunt
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| "To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." | |
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Thomas Alva Edison
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| "To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything." | |
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Anatole France
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| "Truth is too simple for us: we do not like those who unmask our
illusions." | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and
embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy" | |
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Cyril Connolly
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| "What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case,
I definitely overpaid for my carpet." | |
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Woody Allen
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| "What is now proved was once only imagin"d." | |
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William Blake
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| "Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come
to birth. The debt we to play of imagination is incalculable." | |
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Carl Gustav Jung
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| "Your imagination is your world." | |
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