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Quote by Samuel Johnson
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and i

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. – Samuel Johnson

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You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination. – Charles de Gaulle

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I dont like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that its your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination. – Mark Ruffalo

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To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all. – Anatole France

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My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical. – Michael Tippett

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