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Quote by Joseph Addison
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagin

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. – Joseph Addison

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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express. – Joseph Addison

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He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young. – Joseph Addison

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Its just a way of trying to get to a third thing thats not particular to any quote-unquote genre. Its been great for me its really opened me up and gotten me to use that part of my imagination. Its very scary in a lot of ways, and just as exciting. – Charlie Hunter

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Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood. – Jack Prelutsky

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If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isnt thinking. – George S. Patton

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Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination. – Alfred North Whitehead

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When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, This aint going to last, so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now. – Adam Ant

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