"There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness."
-William Godwin
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"There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.“
-William Godwin
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"Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind."
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"Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much."
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"The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind."
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"My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image."
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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."
-Dr. Seuss
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"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
-Jorge Luis Borges
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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."
-Edgar Allan Poe
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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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