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The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing. – Georg C. Lichtenberg

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To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination. – Lord Chesterfield

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We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have – for their usefulness. – Thomas Merton

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The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

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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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