"You are a creator. You create with your every thought...anything you can imagine is yours to be, do or have."
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"It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images."
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"The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle of serious work. But without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. It is therefore short-sighted to treat fantasy, on account of its risky or unacceptable nature, as a thing of little worth."
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"Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it."
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"Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster."
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"It's usually easier to rouse stupidity to action than to arouse wisdom to effort, for wisdom sees alternatives while stupidity lacks the imagination to do this. All sinister interests in a country can depend ultimately upon the strength of stupidity."
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"By having the big lines of the composition going out of the canvas, your imagination can wander beyond the edge. It will make it seem part of a large composition."
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"Microsoft is a company that manages imagination."
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"Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God."
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"Myths are made for the imagination to breath life into them."
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"If you're not sure why you're doing something, you can never do enough of it. Imagination is more important than knowledge."
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"It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live."
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"For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination."
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"Yet magic is no more than the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love and imagination are magic powers that everyone possesses; and whoever knows how to develop them to their fullest extent is a magician. Magic has but one dogma, namely, that the seen is the measure of the unseen."
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"Imagination is the power of the mind over the possibilities of things."
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"Imagination...is the irrepressible revolutionist."
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"Would your reply possibly be this? Well, it all depends on what my tax rate will be on the gain you're saying we're going to make. If the taxes are too high, I would rather leave the money in my savings account, earning a quarter of 1 percent. Only in Grover Norquist's imagination does such a response exist."
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"A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves."
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"I am not out to liberate anybody. You have to liberate yourself, and you are unable to do that. What I have to say will not do it. I am only interested in describing this state, in clearing away the occultation and mystification in which those people in the 'holy business' have shrouded the whole thing. Maybe I can convince you not to waste a lot of time and energy, looking for a state which does not exist except in your imagination."
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"There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive."
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