"The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves."
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"We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine."
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"As a species, we create tools to control our environment. What excites my imagination is wilderness: our materials' ability to escape our control."
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"I like to work with young people, because young people haven’t had their dreams kicked out of them yet. Full of confidence, and imagination, and vision, and when they score that all gets empowered."
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"The imagination never forgets; it is a re-membering. It is not foundationless, but most reasonable, and it alone uses all the knowledge of the intellect."
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"Imagination is the voice of the daring."
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"If it should turn out that the whole of physical reality can be described by a finite set of equations, I would be disappointed, I would feel that the Creator had been uncharacteristically lacking in imagination."
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"...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational."
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"Man - a figment of God's imagination."
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"To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle."
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"The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way."
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"I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world."
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"What is poetry? The suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions."
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"Abstracts, abridgments, summaries, etc., have the same use with burning-glasses,--to collect the diffused light rays of wit and learning in authors, and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination."
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"I can't imagine a human being so hard up for something to do as to quarrel with me."
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"What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the power of your aura."
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"Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect."
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"So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation."
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"If a man proves too clearly and convincingly to himself...that a tiger is an optical illusion--well, he will find out he is wrong. The tiger will himself intervene in the discussion, in a manner which will be in every sense conclusive."
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"Remember this: one can be a strict logician or grammarian and at the same time full of imagination and music."
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