"Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth."
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"Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada."
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"The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability."
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"Only if God can say things that make you struggle will you know that you have met a real God and not a figment of your imagination."
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"When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination."
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"I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real."
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"Our imagination is stretched to the utmost, not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really there, but just to comprehend those things which are there."
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"We are not to tell nature what she’s gotta be... She's always got better imagination than we have."
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"Success is when reality catches up to your imagination."
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"To have ideas one must have imagination. To express ideas one must have science."
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"Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once inflamed, the imagination pursues the craziest and most unlikely possibilities. What is most absurd suddenly seems the most probable."
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"Meditation, you know, comes by a process imagination. You go through all these processes purification of the elements - making the one melt the other, that into the next higher, that into mind, that into spirit, and then you are spirit."
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"People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination"
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"The dwarves of course are quite obviously, couldn't you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic obviously, constructed to be Semitic. Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects (in general) the small reach of their imagination - not the small reach of their courage or latent power."
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"Man is like a tree, with the mighty trunk of intellect, the spreading branches of imagination, and the roots of the lower instincts that bind him to the earth. The moral life, however, is the fruit he bears; in it his true nature is revealed."
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"But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it."
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"When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination. The sequence of pictures plays directly on our feelings."
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"What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination."
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"Imagination is my best friend."
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"Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not."
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