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• A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. But since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that this or that imaginary triumph actually happened.

  George Orwell

  Mistake, Past, Order

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.259, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Pits, Records, Politics

  Ambrose Bierce (2004). “The Devil's Dictionaries: The Best of the Devil's Dictionary and the American Heretic's Dictionary”, p.20, See Sharp Press

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• Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Happiness, Success, Pain

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.3497, Delphi Classics

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• History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.

  Herodotus

  Military, East, Movement

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• Man is just a memory. You understand things around you by the help of the knowledge that was put in you. You perhaps need the artist to explain his modern art, but you don't need anybody's help to understand a flower. You can deal with anything, you can do anything if you do not waste your energy trying to achieve imaginary goals.

  U.G. Krishnamurti

  Art, Memories, Flower

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• Youth is the time of life lived for some imaginary audience.

  Douglas Coupland

  Youth, Audience

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• We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception.

  Chris Hedges

  Deception, World, Corporations

  Chris Hedges (2014). “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle”, p.52, Nation Books

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• As a child, I felt that Hallowe'en was a time when creatures of the night suddenly came to life - we would turn off all the lights in the house and let flickering candlelight conjure up scary shadows and create the effect of imaginary figures lurking in dark corners.

  Pippa Middleton

  Children, Dark, Night

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• Literature takes reality and human experience as its starting point, transforms it by means of the imagination, and sends readers back to life with renewed understanding of it and zest for it because of their excursions into a purely imaginary realm.

  Leland Ryken

  Mean, Reality, Zest

  Leland Ryken (2011). “The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing”, p.24, Shaw Books

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• Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning.

  Jim Woodring

  Dream, Real, Cobras

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. July 8, 2010.

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• James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster.

  Charlotte Mary Yonge

  Travel, Scotland, Space

  Charlotte Mary Yonge (2015). “Delphi Complete Novels of Charlotte Mary Yonge (Illustrated)”, p.7498, Delphi Classics

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• Actors speak of things imaginary as if they were real, while you preachers too often speak of things real as if they were imaginary.

  Thomas Betterton

  Real, Actors, Speak

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• ... semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases of mankind, whether imaginary or real. You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict. Nor is semantics a device for establishing that everyone except the speaker and his friends is speaking nonsense

  Alfred Tarski

  Real, Illusions Of Grandeur, Class

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• How I was brought up and my imaginary friend means more to me than anything you can ever say or do.

  Penn Jillette

  Mean, Imaginary Friend

  "There Is No God". "Morning Edition", www.npr.org. November 21, 2005.

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• I’ve learned the most from Randy Harrison. Because of his fantastic imaginary world filled with bizarre friends. He is constantly giving us good advice.

  Gale Harold

  Giving, Advice, World

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• One might think this means that imaginary numbers are just a mathematical game having nothing to do with the real world. From the viewpoint of positivist philosophy, however, one cannot determine what is real. All one can do is find which mathematical models describe the universe we live in. It turns out that a mathematical model involving imaginary time predicts not only effects we have already observed but also effects we have not been able to measure yet nevertheless believe in for other reasons. So what is real and what is imaginary? Is the distinction just in our minds?

  Stephen Hawking

  Philosophy, Real, Believe

  "The Universe in a Nutshell". Book by Stephen Hawking, 2001.

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• The imaginary world has always been the most fun place for me to be.

  Claire Forlani

  Fun, World, Having Fun

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• Anything that you have imposed on yourself to be unhappy, to be bound, is a concept. It is an imaginary concept, so give it away.

  H. W. L. Poonja

  Giving, Unhappy, Bounds

  H. W.L. Poonja (2007). “Wake Up and Roar”, p.35, Sounds True

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• Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else - an animal's incomplete compared to a person... and a person compared to God, who is complete only to be imaginary.

  Georges Bataille

  God, Animal, Literature

  Georges Bataille (1988). “Guilty”

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• First of all, Buddhism is neither pessimistic nor optimistic. If anything at all, it is realistic, for it takes a realistic view of life and the world. It looks at things objectively (yath?bh?tam). It does not falsely lull you into living in a fool's paradise, nor does it frighten and agonize you with all kinds of imaginary fears and sins. It tells you exactly and objectively what you are and what the world around you is, and shows you the way to perfect freedom, peace, tranquility and happiness.

  Walpola Rahula

  Optimistic, Buddhism, Views

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• I adore imaginary monsters, but I am terrified of real ones.

  Teju Cole

  Real, Monsters, Adore

  Teju Cole (2011). “Open City: A Novel”, p.16, Random House

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• Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.

  David Antin

  Real, Ideas, Made

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• My imaginary friends have become my imaginary children.

  Chris Colfer

  Children, Imaginary Friend

  Chris Colfer speaking at American Librarian Association, 2012.

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• I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as war. Indeed, what folly to kill one another for interests often imaginary, and always for the pleasure of persons who do not think themselves even obliged to those who sacrifice themselves for them!

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  War, Sacrifice, Men

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Isobel Grundy (1997). “Selected letters”, Penguin Group USA

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• The horizon is an imaginary line that recedes as you approach it.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Dream, Vision, Horizon

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