“I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.”
— James Broughton
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“Imagination is the true magic carpet.”
— Norman Vincent Peale
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“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
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“Every day the eye is subject to a thousand tiny shocks as a thousand industries compete for the eye-kick, the visual hook that will lock the consumer into product for that crucial second where the tiny – or not so tiny – leap of the imagination is made.”
— Graham Joyce
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“Imagination comes of not having things.”
— LeRoy Neiman
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“Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.”
— Arnold J. Toynbee
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“Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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“Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.”
— W. Somerset Maugham
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“Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?”
— Ernst Toller
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“You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.”
— Charles de Gaulle
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“A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.”
— Vladimir Nabokov
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