“However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.”
— J. K. Rowling
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“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
— Albert Einstein
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“Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.”
— Shirley Hazzard
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“There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.”
— Josh Billings
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“Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.”
— Donna Brazile
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“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
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“The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.”
— Ai Weiwei
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“In the beginning, we had a great deal of freedom, and Jerry wrote completely out of his imagination – very, very freely. We even had no editorial supervision to speak of, because they were in such a rush to get the thing in before deadline. But later on we were restricted.”
— Joe Shuster
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“Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.”
— Philip Roth
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“Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.”
— Al Gore
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“We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.”
— Anne Sullivan Macy
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