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"The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skills. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle requires creative imagination and marks real advances in science."	Albert Einstein
"I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker. The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and irresistibly invites abuse. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus or Ghandi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?"	Albert Einstein
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."	Albert Einstein
"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
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."	Albert Einstein
"Get rid of imagined guilt. You did the best you could at the time, all things considered. If you made mistakes, learn to accept that we are all imperfect. Only hindsight is 20-20. If you are convinced that you have real guilt, consider professional or spiritual counseling (with a competent and trustworthy counselor). If you believe in God a pastor can help you believe also in God's forgiveness."	Amy Hillyard Jensen
"It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed."	Annie Dillard
"No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage."	Athenæus
"A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant."	Author Unknown
"Don't expect anything original from an echo."	Author Unknown
"Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination."	Barbara G. Harrison
"Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships."	Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
"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
"Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination."	Benjamin "Dizzy" Disraeli
"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
"Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future."	Charles Franklin Kettering
"Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination."	Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood
"Friendship is...the sort of love one can imagine between angels."	Clive Staples Lewis
"We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can."	Cullen Hightower
"The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life."	Daniel J(oseph) Boorstin
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Albert Einstein	Amy Hillyard Jensen	Annie Dillard
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