"I resent the limitations of my own imagination."
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"You must attach yourself spiritually to what you have placed in your imagination as a future fact, and never allow anyone, anything, any circumstance, no matter how persuasive their case, to alter what you know to be your destiny."
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"The dream world, the true freedom of the imagination, does not open to self-conscious manipulation."
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"Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully."
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"Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or a woman lost?"
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"rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination."
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"even The bed of love, that in the imagination Had seemed to be the giver of all peace, Is no more than a wine-cup in the tasting, And as soon finished."
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"My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known."
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"So vast, so limitless in capacity is man's imagination to disperse and burn away the rubble-dross of fact and probability, leaving only truth and dream."
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"Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts."
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"A good sherris-sack hath a twofold operation in it. It ascends me into the brain,... makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes."
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"Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality."
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"Imagination, which in truth Is but another name for absolute power And clearest insight, amplitude of mind, And reason, in her most exalted mood."
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"Then blame not those who, by the mightiest lever Known to the moral world, Imagination."
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"There is required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but also an element of legerdemain, an original and sinister touch, which leaves the enemy puzzled as well as beaten."
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"Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn."
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"I have a hyper-active imagination, my mind tends to jump around a little, and I have some trouble between fantasy and reality."
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"The beauty of a democracy is that you never can tell when a youngster is born what he is going to do with himself, and that no matter how humbly he is born, no matter where he is born, no matter what circumstances hamper him at the outset, he has got a chance to master the minds and lead the imaginations of the whole country."
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"Imagination guides you in your contacts with individuals and crowds, so you can discover new concepts and approaches."
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"The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport."
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