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"Imagination is more important than knowledge."	Albert Einstein
"Imagination is a poor substitute for experience."	Henry Havelock Ellis
"The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are."	Henry Fielding
"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
"Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence."	Erich Fromm
"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
"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality."	Jules de Gaultier
"We live at the level of our language. Whatever we can articulate we can imagine or explore. All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing."	Ellen Gilcrist
"If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out for you in a blueprint, you don't face facts -- what can stop you? If I don't make it today, I'll come in tomorrow."	Ruth Gordon
"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."	Sue Grafton
"I doubt that imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant."	Ursula K. Le Guin
"One day one of my little nephews came up to me and asked me if the equator was a real line that went around the Earth, or just an imaginary one. I had to laugh. Laugh and laugh. Because I didn't know, and I thought that maybe by laughing he would forget what he asked me."	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"Whenever I need to ``get away,'' I just get away in my mind. I go to my imaginary spot, where the beach is perfect and the water is perfect and the weather is perfect. The only bad thing there are the flies. They're terrible!"	Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]
"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
"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
"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
"We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can."	Cullen Hightower
"The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination...you can make feast of straw."	Jane Stanton Hitchcock
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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