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Quote by Francis Bacon
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they ca

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. – Francis Bacon

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Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. – Francis Bacon

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Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination. – Lily Tomlin

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If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old – somebody who takes good care of things and of people. – Connie Nielsen

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It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that theres not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination. – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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