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Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
John Lennon

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And, as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.

William Shakespeare

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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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"Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience."

-Bible

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Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste
Brought death into the world, and all our woe,
With loss of Eden.

John Milton

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This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,--
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

William Shakespeare, "King Richard II", Act 2 scene 1
Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)

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It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a manner that no longer coincided with British imperial interests.

John Amery

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What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war.

Simone Weil

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They have gone too long without a war here. Where is morality to come from in such a case, I ask? Peace is nothing but slovenliness, only war creates order.

Bertolt Brecht 1898-1956: Mother Courage (1939)

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In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.

Jimi Hendrix