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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I hope that Im sexy in a different kind of way than I think that a lot of girls are right now. I think a lot of girls in the public eye, especially musical artists, are just kind of objectified a little bit and wearing super-skimpy outfits and leaving nothing to the imagination. – Emmy Rossum

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Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audiences imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean theres no fourth wall. – Stephen Sondheim

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Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. – George Bernard Shaw

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A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. – Norman Cousins

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Eisenhower was my war hero and the President I admire and respect most. – Ethel Merman

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It is not enough to know your craft – you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more. – Edouard Manet

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Upon the whole, I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to our selves. That we have first raised a dust, and then complain, we cannot see. – George Berkeley

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