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You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

—Mark Twain

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Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

—Cullen Hightower

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Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

—Paul Valéry

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Imagination is more important than knowledge...

—Albert Einstein

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Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

—Herb Caen

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After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.

—George Ade

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

—Louisa May Alcott

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If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

—Erich Fromm

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Be the chief but never the lord.

—Laozi

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The possible ranks higher than the actual.

—Martin Heidegger

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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

—Henry David Thoreau

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Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

—Hippocrates

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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.

—Samuel Butler

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What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

—John Keats

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Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

—John Updike

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