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"The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination."	Richard Hofstadter
"I do not mean to suggest that our handsome, newly enlarged library is to be a headquarters of busy bookworms, old and young, routinely absorbing knowledge by the hour while birds sing outside and the Mets fight it out for last place in the National League. On the contrary, a good library is a joyful place where the imagination roams free, and life is actively enriched."	John K. Hutchens
"Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination."	Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood
"It's time to start living the life you've imagined."	Henry James
"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
"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination."	Joseph Joubert
"Imagination is the eye of the soul."	Joseph Joubert
"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affection and the truth of imagination."	John Keats
"What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth."	John Keats
"The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness."	John Keats
"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it."	John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future."	Charles Franklin Kettering
"Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young."	Ursula K. LeGuin
"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
"Friendship is...the sort of love one can imagine between angels."	Clive Staples Lewis
"Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry."	Martin Luther
"Naturally, we cannot say much about the spiritual body, because we cannot imagine what it would be like to have a spiritual body different from that which we now inhabit; but it seems to me reasonable to believe that we are weaving our spiritual bodies as we go along."	William R. Matthews
"To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind."	W(illiam) Somerset Maugham
"I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation."	W(illiam) Somerset Maugham
"Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination."	Melissa Mayer
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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