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"To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another."
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"All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination."
"Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out."
"What if dragons breathed bubbles and purred when they cuddled and giggled at chivalrous knights for their troubles?What if dragons felt soft, having scales made of cloth,and they moved rather slow like a brown-throated sloth?What if dragons were shyand did easily crywhen confronted by characters callous and sly?What if dragons did goodbut were misunderstoodso men mercilessly slew the beasts right where they stood?What if dragons aren't missedbecause there is no listof extinct types of quarry that now don't exist?"
"It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth."
"Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have."
"There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos."
"The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have never seen."
"The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity."
"To reach only for that which pleasantly enchants you is the least of imagination, if even imagination at all, by the obvious reality of remaining within your means. The greater of imagination is parallel to risk. It extends beyond your comfort zone or haven, or sense of beauty, or what you personally believe suits you in exploration of what may not."
"As the daydreams grew longer, the distinction between what was real and what was imaginary grew less. Soon I existed in a blissful world of my own creation."
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"For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service."
"If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go."
"Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man."
"I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy."
"I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral."
"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see."
"There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad."
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