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Quote by Thomas Jefferson
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory. – Thomas Jefferson

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The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people that… it is their right and duty to be at all times armed. – Thomas Jefferson

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The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world. – Thomas Jefferson

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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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What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out. – Wynton Marsalis

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It takes no imagination to live within your means. – Francis Ford Coppola

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If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think. – Miranda Otto

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The possibilities that are suggested in quantum physics tell us that everything that were looking at may not be in fact there, so the underlying nature of being is weird. – William Shatner

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