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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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To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man. – Joseph Addison

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To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement. – Joseph Addison

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For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination. – Maxwell Maltz

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I always believe its better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do. – Trevor Nunn

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But in a 24-hour day, the 25th hour is also the impossible hour, an hour that doesnt exist, that can only be created by the imagination. – David Benioff

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Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination. – John Cameron

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