"It is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination."
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"Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination."
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"One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations."
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"If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance."
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"But how entirely I live in my imagination; how completely depend upon spurts of thought, coming as I walk, as I sit; things churning up in my mind and so making a perpetual pageant, which is to be my happiness."
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"This is the theater. And this is the best place for the imagination."
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"Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s."
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"The most beautiful world is always entered through imagination."
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"Adding more people causes problems. But people are also the means to solve these problems. The main fuel to speed the world’s progress is our stock of knowledge; the brakes are our lack of imagination and unsound social regulations of these activities. The ultimate resource is people—especially skilled, spirited, and hopeful young people endowed with liberty—who will exert their wills and imaginations for their own benefits, and so inevitably they will benefit the rest of us as well."
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"The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child."
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"What happens after death is so unspeakably glorious that our imagination and our feelings do not suffice to form even an approximate conception of it. The dissolution of our time-bound form in eternity brings no loss of meaning."
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"Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver."
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"Yet mystery and imagination arise from the same source. This source is called darkness ... Darkness within darkness, the gateway to all understanding."
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"Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work."
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"Where am I when I'm not in reality or in my imagination?"
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"What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime."
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"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable."
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"When I get an idea I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in my thought or test it in my shop. I even note if it is out of balance."
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"Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination."
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"It's our imagination that's responsible for love, not the other person."
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