#imagination

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

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Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. ↗

— Voltaire

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I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to. ↗

— David Walliams

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I think often in film we limit our imaginations a little - well, quite a lot, actually... things get quite formulaic. ↗

— Hugo Weaving

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Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. ↗

— Simone Weil

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Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it. ↗

— Simone Weil

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The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. ↗

— Jessamyn West

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Picture to yourself the most beautiful girl imaginable! She was so beautiful that there would be no point, in view of my meagre talent for storytelling, in even trying to put her beauty into words. That would far exceed my capabilities, so I'll refrain from mentioning whether she was a blonde or a brunette or a redhead, or whether her hair was long or short or curly or smooth as silk. I shall also refrain from the usual comparisons where her complexion was concerned, for instance milk, velvet, satin, peaches and cream, honey or ivory, Instead, I shall leave it entirely up to your imagination to fill in this blank with your own ideal of feminine beauty. ↗

— Walter Moers

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Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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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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