L. Frank Baum: True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid.

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization. A prominent educator tells me that fairy tales are of untold value in developing imagination in the young. I believe it.

L. Frank Baum

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The Imaginative Child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization

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To destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.

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My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City.

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I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.

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Hearts will never be practical until they can be made unbreakable.

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I shall take the heart. For brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world.

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You see, in this country are a number of youths who do not like to work, and the college is an excellent place for them.

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People would rather live in homes regardless of its grayness. There is no place like home.

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I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.

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Now I know I've got a heart because it is breaking. - Tin Man

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As the years pass, and we look back on something which, at the time, seemed unbelievably discouraging and unfair, we come to realize that, after all, God was at all times on our side. The eventual outcome was, we discover, by far the best solution for us, and what we thought should have been to our best advantage, would in reality have been quite detrimental.

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Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.

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Oh - You're a very bad man!" Oh, no my dear. I'm a very good man. I'm just a very bad Wizard.

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But you will admit that it's a good thing to be alive.

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If your heads were stuffed with straw, like mine, you would probably all live in the beautiful places, and then Kansas would have no people at all. It is fortunate for Kansas that you have brains.

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How very wet this water is.

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No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home.

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Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old.

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An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that "when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it, it is a massacre."

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