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"Love is the triump of imagination over intelligence."	Henry Louis Mencken
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."	Henry Louis Mencken
"We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance."	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative."	Oscar Wilde
"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
"Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young."	W. Somerset Maugham
"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."	Jack London
"You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'"	George Bernard Shaw
"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them."	Pablo Picasso
"It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block."	Paul Gauguin
"The Possible's slow fuse is lit By the Imagination."	Emily Dickinson
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