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| Lyman Frank Baum was an American author, poet, playwright, actor and independent filmmaker, best known today as the creator, along with illustrator W. W. Denslow, of one of the most popular books in American children's literature, The Wonderful... |
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![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=69001&author=Baum"e=%22One+of+my+greatest+fears+was+the+Witches%2C+for+while+I+had+no+magical+powers+at+all+I+soon+found+out+that+the+Witches+were+really+able+to+do+wonderful+things.+There+were+four+of+them+in+this+country%2C+and+they+ruled+the+people+who+live+in+the+North+and+South+and+East+and+West.+Fortunately%2C+the+Witches+of+the+North+and+South+were+good%2C+and+I+knew+they+would+do+me+no+harm%3B+but+the+Witches+of+the+East+and+West+were+terribly+wicked%2C+and+had+they+not+thought+I+was+more+powerful+than+they+themselves%2C+they+would+surely+have+destroyed+me.%22&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2Fimages_web%2Fauthor_no_icon.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=68976&author=Baum"e=Some+of+my+youthful+readers+are+developing+wonderful+imaginations.+This+pleases+me.+Imagination+has+brought+mankind+through+the+Dark+Ages+to+its+present+state+of+civilization.+Imagination+led+Columbus+to+discover+America.+Imagination+led+Franklin+to+discover+electricity.+Imagination+has+given+us+the+steam+engine%2C+the+telephone%2C+the+talking-machine%2C+and+the+automobile%2C+for+these+things+had+to+be+dreamed+of+before+they+became+realities.+So+I+believe+that+dreams+%E2%80%94+day+dreams%2C+you+know%2C+with+your+eyes+wide+open+and+your+brain+machinery+whizzing+%E2%80%94+are+likely+to+lead+to+the+betterment+of+the+world.+The+imaginative+child+will+become+the+imaginative+man+or+woman+most+apt+to+create%2C+to+invent%2C+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.%0A&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2Fimages_web%2Fauthor_no_icon.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=68975&author=Baum"e=It+is+a+callous+age%3B+we+have+seen+so+many+marvels+that+we+are+ashamed+to+marvel+more%3B+the+seven+wonders+of+the+world+have+become+seven+thousand+wonders.%0A&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2Fimages_web%2Fauthor_no_icon.png){kind=link}
![Powerpoint](http://www.iwise.com/downloadPPT.php?quote_id=68990&author=Baum"e=It+was+Toto+that+made+Dorothy+laugh%2C+and+saved+her+from+growing+as+gray+as+her+other+surroundings.+Toto+was+not+gray%3B+he+was+a+little+black+dog%2C+with+long+silky+hair+and+small+black+eyes+that+twinkled+merrily+on+either+side+of+his+funny%2C+wee+nose.&image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwise.com%2Fimages_web%2Fauthor_no_icon.png){kind=link}