"Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top."
-Edward Abbey
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"Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.“
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"Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best."
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"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."
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"The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals."
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"There is science, logic, reason there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California."
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"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination."
-Albert Einstein
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"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."
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"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
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"A lady's imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
-Jane Austen
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"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night."
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"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
-Sylvia Plath
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