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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

John Lennon
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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

George Bernard Shaw
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Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future. -Charles F. Kettering
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An idea is salvation by imagination.

Frank Lloyd Wright
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The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

John Ruskin
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They imagine they're the wave of the future, but it's only sewage flowing downhill. -Lois McMaster Bujold
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Imagination decides everything.

Blaise Pascal
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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Imagination is more important than knowledge... -Albert Einstein
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Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Albert Einstein
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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein
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Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!' -Bill Bradley
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The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.

Alexander Chase
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Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society.

Marguerite Blessington
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Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. -Tom Stoppard
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The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

Toni Morrison
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There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.

Voltaire
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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it. -Ursula K. LeGuin
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Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky - fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will.

Frank Gelett Burgess
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Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

Antisthenes
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This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts. -Adam M. Smith
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Imagination, industry, and intelligence - "the three I s" - are all indispensable to the actress, but of these three the greatest is, without doubt, imagination.

Kitty O'neill Collins
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Memory feeds imagination.

Amy Tan
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Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality. -Irving Howe
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There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

Sean O'Faolain
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You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Mark Twain
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Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind. -Margaret Oliphant
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Imagination is a very precise thing, you know-it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking-that is imagination!

Jacques Lipchitz
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The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized. -Mary Richards
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