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When I was small, I never wanted to step in puddles. Not because of any fear of drowned worms or wet...

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Europe enjoyed a heritage of fairy tales alive with talking animals--some almost real, other delicio...

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There are known knowns, things we know that we know; and there are known unknowns, things that we kn...

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Birds can sing and fish can swim and I can do this.

Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Wi...

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How a Plain horse and wagon on Mulberry Street, Grows into a story Thet no one can beat

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Dr. SeussAnd to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street

How a plain and wagon on Mulberry Street, Grows into a story that no one can beat

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Dr. SeussAnd to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

It is the starved imagination, not the well-nourished, that is afraid.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

They say that none of us exists, except in the imagination of his fellows, other than as an intangib...

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Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

In my mind, Martha, you are buried in cement right up to your neck. No… right up to your nose… that’...

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No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

The world, I think, will wait a long time for Nikola Tesla's equal in achievement and imagination.

For an instant Harry imagined... Just for an instant, before his imagination blew a fuse and called ...

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Eliezer YudkowskyHarry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

A poor original is better than a good imitation.

When weary with the long day’s care,And earthly change from pain to pain,And lost, and ready to desp...

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No parson in the world ever pictured heaven so beautifully as they did, in their innocent talk

To make a prairie it takes clover and one bee one clover and a bee and revery The revery alone wil...

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The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.

your brain is wider than the sky

We dream — it is good we are dreaming —It would hurt us — were we awake —But since it is playing — k...

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Emily DickinsonFinal Harvest: Emily Dickinson's Poems

The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination.

In real life I fell easily under the spell of all traveling artists. En route to New Orleans, entert...

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My father knew our way mile by mile; by day or by night, he knew where we were. Everything that chan...

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Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into ac...

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I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than ...

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my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark ...

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I can breathe easier now that the appointments are behind me.I missed them all, through deliberate n...

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Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early...

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I had come from wondrous lands, from landscapes more enchanting than life, but only to myself did I ...

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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him fo...

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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him fo...

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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him fo...

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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him fo...

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Pretending doesn't require expensive toys.

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Fred RogersYou Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor

If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imag...

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Frederick BuechnerWhistling in the Dark: A Doubter's Dictionary

What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent o...

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A lost bird appeared in the court and was half an hour jumping around between the spikenard. It sang...

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Words are little houses, each with its cellar and garret. Common-sense lives on the ground floor, al...

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Childhood is a human water, a water which comes out of the shadows. This childhood in the mists and ...

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The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

Yes, the house must be inhabited, and we will see by whom; for imagination is a licensed trespasser:...

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The problem with classical disembodied scientific realism is that it takes two intertwined and insep...

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George LakoffPhilosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought

The necessary unlikeness between the creator and the created holds within it the equally necessary l...

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To inquire into what God has made is the main function of the imagination. It is aroused by facts, i...

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Indeed, a man is rather being thought than thinking, when a new thought arises in his mind.

All words, then, belonging to the inner world of the mind, are of the imagination, are originally po...

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If we speak of direct means for the culture of the imagination, the whole is comprised in two words-...

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In very truth, a wise imagination, which is the presence of the spirit of God, is the best guide tha...

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[T]he imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.

There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do ...

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After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in orde...

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Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after a...

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Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after ...

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The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading h...

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Hate is a lack of imagination.

When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . . . that was a...

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Graham GreeneThe Power and the Glory

When you visualized a man or woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity – that was a quali...

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The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity.

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Grant MorrisonSupergods: What Masked Vigilantes

Rigor alone is paralytic death, but imagination alone is insanity.

Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed anyt...

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Motionless we traverse countries we fancy we see, and your thought, blending with the fiction, playi...

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We are to turn our backs for a space upon the insistent examination of the thing that is, and face t...

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He knew clearly enough that his imagination was growing traitor to him, and yet at times it seemed t...

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H. G. WellsGreat Tales of Horror and the Supernatural

…growing a little tiresome on account of some mysterious internal discomfort that the local practiti...

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H. G. WellsThe History of Mr. Polly

But I have believed always and taught always that what God demands from man is his utmost effort to ...

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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

When Randolph Carter was thirty he lost the key of the gate of dreams.

There are so many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of the...

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I closed my eyelids, and imagination, taking up the thread of thought, shot its swift shuttle back a...

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I am glad to see that you have enough imagination not to be altogether a fool... Yes, it is want of ...

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H. Rider HaggardHunter Quatermain's Story: The Uncollected Adventures of Allan Quatermain

Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these...

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Imagination frames events unknown In wild fantastic shapes of hideous ruin And what it fears cre...

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Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to m...

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Harper LeeTo Kill a Mockingbird

I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why...

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Harper LeeTo Kill a Mockingbird

The whole terrible fight occured in the area of imagination. That is the precise location of our bat...

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I just gave them a little scare. A touch of psychological terror. As Joseph Conrad once wrote, true ...

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The ones with no imagination are always the quickest to justify themselves

It's all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine.

You’re afraid of imagination. And even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the responsibility that begi...

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Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, u...

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You're afraid of imagination. And even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the responsibility that begi...

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Still, though, I can't be sure if the zoo as I recall it was really like that. How can I put it? I s...

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The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from real...

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Still, though, I can’t be sure if the zoo as I recall it was really like that. How can I put it? I s...

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Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

See that house with the Ivy on it? From that rooftop, what if you leapt onto the next rooftop, dashe...

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Life when one first arrives is a continual mortification as one's romantic illusions are successivel...

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The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. The imagination must be given not wings but weights.

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Henry AdamsThe Education of Henry Adams

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar...

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I never did anything in life to anyone's imagination.

Nothing irritates me so as the flatness of people’s imagination.

Dr. Manning said he'd thought at first it might be sleeping sickness, or even narcolepsy, whatever t...

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Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything godlike about God, it is that. He dared to ...

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To move forward clinging to the past is like dragging a ball and chain. The prisoner is not the one ...

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