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"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."
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"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."

"The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer."

"If I had waited long enough I probably never would have written anything at all since there is a tendency when you really begin to learn something about a thing not to want to write about it but rather to keep on learning about it always and at no time, unless you are very egotistical, which, of course, accounts for many books, will you be able to say: now I know all about this and will write about it."

"Skill gives you legs to jog, talent gives you legs to run, brilliance gives you legs to sprint, but genius gives you wings to fly."

"For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator."

"Imagination is a glorious wonder."

"Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre."

"Every time a man puts a new idea across he finds ten men who thought of it before he did - but they only thought of it."

"I want to paint the rest of my days with the best colors."

"It does not need to be perfect - or technically correct - to be magic."
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"But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds."

"People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them."

"The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man."

"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."

"The weak may not be admired and hero-worshipped; but they are by no means disliked or shunned; and they never seem to have the least difficulty in marrying people who are too good for them. They may fail in emergencies; but life is not one long emergency: it is mostly a string of situations for which no exceptional strength is needed, and with which even rather weak people can cope if they have a stronger partner to help them out."

"A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."

"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything."
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