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My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagi

My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner. – Andre Dubus III

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Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination. – Janet Frame

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Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent, and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play. – Henri Matisse

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Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it – often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes. – Daniel H. Wilson

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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. – W. Somerset Maugham

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We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game. – Alan Shearer

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We need to have a pro-growth policy put in place that offers people hope and offers the opportunity for businesses to expand and for them to have confidence in what the world is going to look like for the next two or three or four years with respect to economic policy. – Dick Cheney

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Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. – Aristotle

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