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"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
"Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage."	Sydney J. Harris
"Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry."	Martin Luther
"As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope."	Ursula K. LeGuin
"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
"Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative."	Oscar Wilde
"Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire."	Ernest Miller Hemingway
"Don't expect anything original from an echo."	Author Unknown
"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination."	John Dewey
"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
"Friendship is...the sort of love one can imagine between angels."	Clive Staples Lewis
"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
"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
"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
"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affection and the truth of imagination."	John Keats
"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination."	Joseph Joubert
"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
"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge That myth is more potent than history That dreams are more powerful than facts That hope always triumphs over experience That laughter is the only cure for grief And I believe that love is stronger than death."	Robert
"I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation."	W(illiam) Somerset Maugham
"I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned."	Gerald R. Ford
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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