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		No breed of cats in its proper condition can by any stretch of the imagination be thought of as even slightly ungraceful - a record against which must be pitted the depressing spectacle of impossibly flattened bulldogs, grotesquely elongated dachshunds, hideously shapeless and shaggy Airedales, and the like.
	
	  H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft
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		We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.
	
	  Jack Williamson Jack Williamson
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		Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
	
	  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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		I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.
	
	  Florence Welch
			
			
				Florence and the Machine Florence Welch
			
			
				Florence and the Machine
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		The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.
	
	  Eddie Rickenbacker Eddie Rickenbacker
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		Only in your imagination can you revise.
	
	  Fay Wray Fay Wray
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		The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.
	
	  Gary Zukav Gary Zukav
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		Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.
	
	  H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft
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		I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
	
	  Ursula K. Le Guin Ursula K. Le Guin
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		I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.
	
	  Yehuda Amichai Yehuda Amichai
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		Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.
	
	  Irving Howe Irving Howe
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		Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.
	
	  Quincy Jones Quincy Jones
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		My name is Jarrett Krosoczka, and I write and illustrate books for children for a living. So I use my imagination as my full-time job.
	
	  Jarrett J. Krosoczka Jarrett J. Krosoczka
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		My paternal grandfather, Abraham Lincoln, emigrated from Rockingham County, Virginia, to Kentucky about 1781 or 1782, where a year or two later he was killed by the Indians, not in battle, but by stealth, when he was laboring to open a farm in the forest. His ancestors, who were Quakers, went to Virginia from Berks County, Pennsylvania.
	
	  Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln
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		Recycling is an area where jobs could be created at low cost. Green collar workers. That's not very sexy.
	
	  Geoff Mulgan Geoff Mulgan
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		Germany had the misfortune of becoming poisoned, first because of plenty, and then because of want.
	
	  Albert Einstein Albert Einstein
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		I have too much imagination to be a housewife.
	
	  Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe