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The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible.

— Pete Seeger

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The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.

How Can I Keep from Singing: Pete Seeger (1981)

To everything (turn, turn, turn)
There is a season (turn, turn, turn)
And a time for every purpose under heaven.

Turn! Turn! Turn! (1954)

The world will be saved by people fighting for their homes.

The key to the future of the world, is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.

If singing were all that serious, frowning would make you sound better.

How Can I Keep from Singing: Pete Seeger (1981)

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Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me.

L. Frank Baum Introduction to The Lost Princess of Oz (1917)

There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.

Alan Moore

An active imagination may find a bad tendency arising out of every transaction between imperfect morals.

Edward Hall Alderson Brownlow v. Egerton (1854)

Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination, and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.

David Hume A Treatise of Human Nature (1739)

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