"Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity."

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L. Frank Baum

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“Nobody can be forced to commit an act of villainy. You can't push anybody into the mud; people always step into it themselves.”

Source : Sergei Lukyanenko (2006). “Night Watch”, Miramax
“The great majority of us are required to live a constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected by it if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what bring brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isnâ€™t just a fiction, itâ€™s part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space and is inside us, like teeth in our mouth. It canâ€™t be forever violated with impunity.”
“I like people who dress quirkly and differently. Like in womenswear, thank god for Helena Bonham Carter!”
“A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.”
“We are hungry for more; if we do not consciously pursue the More, we create less for ourselves and make it more difficult to experience More in life.”
“My philosophy? Practice, practice, practice and win.”
“I have to take what I say and make it heavy, so every single bar means something. And there's no riddles in my rhymes. Every single word means something.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I have come to recognize evolution not only as an active process that I am experiencing at the time, but as something I can guide by the choices I make.”

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