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• Your pursuit of personal greatness challenges others to fear for their own causes, their own battles and pursuits. Your freedom is a reminder of their own imaginary restraints and limitations. Yet, for others, your confidence will be a beacon. People follow conviction, assertive advice and brave leaders, and there's nothing more powerful than a confident man or woman.

  James Victore

  Powerful, Greatness, Men

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• Growing up as a chubby kid with a ton of imaginary friends and a Cyndi Lauper obsession, I learned about rejection early on and was constantly trying to avoid it.

  Beth Ditto

  Growing Up, Kids, Rejection

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2007.

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• If we betake ourselves to the statistical method, we do so confessing that we are unable to follow the details of each individual case, and expecting that the effects of widespread causes, though very different in each individual, will produce an average result on the whole nation, from a study of which we may estimate the character and propensities of an imaginary being called the Mean Man.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Character, Mean, Science

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• If I need a cause for celebration, Or a comfort I can use to ease my mind, I rely on my imagination, And I dream of an imaginary time.

  Billy Joel

  Dream, Imagination, Mind

  Song: Everybody Has A Dream, Album: The Stranger, 1977

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• Understand then all of you, especially the young, that to want to impose an imaginary state of government on others by violence is not only a vulgar superstition, but even a criminal work. Understand that this work, far from assuring the well-being of humanity is only a lie, a more or less unconscious hypocrisy, camouflaging the lowest passions we posses.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Lying, Passion, Government

  Passage written in 1908 for for 'The Law of Love and the Law of Violence'. "Equality in Liberty and Justice". Book by Antony Flew, p. 89, 2001.

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• In the 1920s the young English physicist Paul Dirac began trying to understand and describe the space-time evolution of the electron, the first elementary particle discovered by J.J. Thomson in 1897. Dirac was puzzled by an unprecedented property of space-time, discovered by Lorentz in his studies of electromagnetic forces, whereby if space was real, time had to be imaginary, and vice versa. In other words, space and time had to be a ‘complex’ mixture of two quantities, one real and the other imaginary.

  Antonino Zichichi

  Real, Two, Space

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• The number and richness of man's signifiers always surpasses the set of defined objects that could be termed signifieds. The symbolic function must always precede its object and does not encounter reality except when it precedes it into the imaginary.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Reality, Men, Numbers

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• We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.

  Blaise Pascal

  Real, Eye, People

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• Please join me in applauding the ESA - European Space Agency’s historic efforts with the Rosetta Mission and landing a spacecraft on rotating comet. It may seem like a work of fiction, but it is very real, very impressive, and will help us to further uncover the mysteries surrounding the formation of the solar system. They made a beautiful short film using an imaginary landscape to illustrate today’s historic feat.

  Stephen Hawking

  Beautiful, Real, Agency

  FaceBook post by Stephen Hawking from Nov 12, 2014

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• MATERIAL, adj. Having an actual existence, as distinguished from an imaginary one. Important.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Important, Existence, Distinguished

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.162, University of Georgia Press

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• Art is real and imaginary, two worlds rolled into one - the fulfillment of the artist's insatiable soul.

  Edward J. Fraughton

  Art, Real, Two

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• The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains.

  Karl Marx

  Flower, Men, Agnostic

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• Just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.

  Kabir

  Firm, Stand Firm, Imaginary Things

  Kabir (1977). “The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir”

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• In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think is important, you lose your piece of heart. As soon as you compare that shadow with the shadows of other people, you lose all joy, because you have begun to trade in unrealities and there is no joy in things that do not exist.

  Thomas Merton

  Heart, Humility, Thinking

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• One of the advantages of having an imaginary boyfriend is that he exists only for you, therefore he can not be stolen. The disadvantage is that you can not introduce him to your friends.

  Jessica Zafra

  Introducing, Advantage, Stolen

  Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

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• Pride is the utter poverty of soul disguised as riches, imaginary light where in fact there is darkness.

  John Climacus

  Pride, Light, Soul

  Saint John (Climacus) (1982). “John Climacus (CWS)”, p.209, Paulist Press

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• Saul Bellow once said, 'A writer is a reader who has moved to emulation' — which I think is true. I just started writing and made that jump from reader to writer and learned how hard it was, but also how much fun it was — losing myself in these imaginary worlds.

  Stewart O'Nan

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

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• The stronger the imagination, the less imaginary the results.

  Robert Moss

  Imagination, Stronger, Results

  Robert Moss (2009). “The Three "Only" Things (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.249, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You know, they ask me if I were on a desert island and I knew nobody would ever see what I wrote, would I go on writing. My answer is most emphatically yes. I would go on writing for company. Because I'm creating an imaginary - it's always imaginary - world in which I would like to live.

  William S. Burroughs

  Writing, Creating, Islands

  The Paris Review Interview, Fall 1965.

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• I had refused to pay any attention to the moral laws upon which all our vitality and sanity depend: and so now I was reduced to the condition of a silly old woman, worrying about a lot of imaginary rules of health, standards of food-value, and a thousand minute details of conduct that were in themselves completely ridiculous and stupid, and yet which haunted me with vague and terrific sanctions. If I eat this, I may go out of my mind. If I do not eat that, I may die in the night.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Stupid, Silly

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• Prejudice is the conjuror of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, over-powering reason, making strong people weak, and weak people weaker. God gave us the large-hearted charity which "beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things," which "thinketh no evil!"

  John Ross Macduff

  Strong, People, Evil

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• What is the heart? It is not human and it is not imaginary. I call it you.

  Rumi

  Heart, Humans

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• She thinks, I failed twice. If I failed twice I'm going to fail forever. No! That is not the law of life. If you failed twice that means you can learn. It's just a learning experience. It's an obstacle. An imaginary obstacle. She made it real. She made failing a journey of life... Instead do again and make a journey of your life.

  Cesar Millan

  Real, Healing, Mean

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• Most of the arts, as painting, sculpture, and music, have emotional appeal to the general public. This is because these arts can be experienced by some one or more of our senses. Such is not true of the art of mathematics; this art can be appreciated only by mathematicians, and to become a mathematician requires a long period of intensive training. The community of mathematicians is similar to an imaginary community of musical composers whose only satisfaction is obtained by the interchange among themselves of the musical scores they compose.

  Cornelius Lanczos

  Art, Math, Emotional

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• All acting is an act of imagination. You are simply conjuring up imaginary circumstances in your mind and responding truthfully to them.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Imagination, Mind, Acting

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