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"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."
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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."
"What mattered was that the room over the junk-shop should exist. To know that it was there, inviolate, was almost the same as being in it. The room was a world, a pocket of the past where extinct animals could walk."
"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."
"Dream's elixir veered between light and clouds to save the blue.."
"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."
Explore more quotes by Harry S. Truman
"A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it."
"I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!"
"You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible."
"I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases."
"I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization."
"It's plain hokum. If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em. It's an old political trick. But this time it won't work."
"My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States."
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