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It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice — there are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.

— Frank Zappa The Real Frank Zappa Book (1989)

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The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life.

In response to Joe Walsh on The Howard Stern Show (1987)

The lessons learnt in the '60s about merchandising stupidity to the American public on a large scale have been used over and over again since that time.

The MOFO Project/Object (2006)

Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.

The Real Frank Zappa Book (1989)

I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment.

Watch out where the huskies go,
and don't you eat that yellow snow.

Apostrophe (') (1974)

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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.

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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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