Quote by Stephen Leacock
Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than t

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. – Stephen Leacock

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If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldnt use, I would hire a professor and get some text books. – Stephen Leacock

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Libraries
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A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better. – Stephen Leacock

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Trust
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Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so. – Stephen Leacock

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Christmas
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Anyone who said he wasnt afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didnt shake but inside I was shaking. – James L. Farmer, Jr.

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Imagination

I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real. – Sean Parker

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Imagination

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. Its the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe. – Philip Guston

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Imagination

Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points. – Percival Lowell

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Imagination

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An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men. – Thomas Fuller

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Ive been looking at some video clips on YouTube of President Obama – then candidate Obama – going through Iowa making promises. The gap between his promises and his performance is the largest Ive seen, well, since the Kardashian wedding and the promise of til death do we part. – Mitt Romney

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An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject. – Robert Brault

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Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted. – Don Delillo

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