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"Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined."	Rodan of Alexandria
"The man who has no imagination has no wings."	Muhammad Ali
"No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage."	Athenæus
"Imagination is the highest kite one can fly."	Lauren Bacall
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."	Sir Francis Bacon
"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable."	James Arthur Baldwin
"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."	James Arthur Baldwin
"Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams--daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing--are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization."	L. Frank Baum
"People who've had happy childhoods are wonderful, but they're bland... An unhappy childhood compels you to use your imagination to create a world in which you can be happy. Use your old grief. That's the gift you're given."	Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
"What is now proved was once only imagined."	William Blake
"What is now proved was once imagined."	William Blake
"Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults."	H(elena) P(etrovna) Hahn Blavatsky
"The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life."	Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."	Jorge Luis Borges
"The possibilities for mobilizing the experience, imaginations, and intelligence of workers, both employed and unemployed, are limitless."	Dominique Bouhours
"There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination."	Edmund Burke
"Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever."	Noam Chomsky
"The surest road to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill; - Most of those evils we poor mortals know, From doctors and imagination flow."	Charles Churchill
"Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live."	Peter Cochrane
"Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never."	Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Athenæus	Author Unknown	Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Barbara G. Harrison	Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli
Charles Churchill	Charles Franklin Kettering	Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood
Clive Staples Lewis	Cullen Hightower	Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin
Dominique Bouhours	Donald Curtis	Edmund Burke
Ellen Gilcrist	Emile Coue	Emily Dickinson
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson	Erich Fromm	Ernest Miller Hemingway
General Charles De Gaulle	George Bernard Shaw	Gerald R. Ford
Henry Fielding	Henry Havelock Ellis	Henry James
Henry Louis Mencken	H(elena) P(etrovna) Hahn Blavatsky	Jack London
Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	James Arthur Baldwin	Jane Stanton Hitchcock
John Dewey	John Keats	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John K. Hutchens	Jorge Luis Borges	Joseph Joubert
Jules de Gaultier	Lauren Bacall	Lawrence George Durrell
L. Frank Baum	Marquis de Sade	Martin Luther
Melissa Mayer	Muhammad Ali	Noam Chomsky
Oscar Wilde	Pablo Picasso	Paul Gauguin
Peter Cochrane	Ralph Waldo Emerson	Richard Hofstadter
Robert	Robert J. Collier	Rodan of Alexandria
Ruth Gordon	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Sir Francis Bacon
Stephen R. Covey	Sue Grafton	Sydney J. Harris
Thomas Alva Edison	Thomas Crum	Ursula K. LeGuin
Ursula K. Le Guin	W. Somerset Maugham	William Blake
William R. Matthews	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	W(illiam) Somerset Maugham