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• I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Effort, Humanity, Would Be

  Joseph Rotblat, Daisaku Ikeda (2007). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.129, I.B.Tauris

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• Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world.

  Helen Keller

  Heart, People, World

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.28, American Foundation for the Blind

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• I don't think I'm more of a screenwriter than I am a fiction writer. I'm more of a reader than a film-watcher, so I imagine that I'm not approaching fiction or films in a particularly cinematic way.

  Miranda July

  Thinking, Fiction, Way

  Interview with Ross Simonini, www.believermag.com. 2015.

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• My [singing] style really has no style, because I try to sing each number differently. I’ve always believed that if style takes precedent over the words and music, the audience get’s cheated. It’s like when people see a fine play or movie. They imagine themselves in the leading role. I want them to imagine that they’re singing - not just listening to someone else.

  Judy Garland

  Play, Numbers, People

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• Imagine that you had discovered gold or oil on a certain property, and no one else knew about it. Can you see yourself being sad and feeling deprived for having to gather all your resources and sacrifice them in order to buy that property? Hardly. Now you know what it is like to deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow Jesus.

  Dallas Willard

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Order

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• Do not imagine that Art is something which is designed to give gentle uplift and self-confidence . Art is not a brassiere. At least, not in the English sense. But do not forget that brassiere is the French word for life-jacket.

  Julian Barnes

  Uplifting, Art, Self Confidence

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• When we fall in love and we have a first kiss with someone, we never ever imagine that someday that could be a last kiss.

  Taylor Swift

  Falling In Love, Kissing, First Kiss

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• It is a mistake to imagine that you can awaken in any kind of permanent way. There is only NOW and so you can only be awake now. Even the idea of permanence is an illusion. The question to ask is 'Am I awake and fully present NOW?' That question arises and is answered in perfect silence.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Mistake, Ideas, Perfect

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• Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world; and, whatever apparent disadvantages he may suffer in the comparison with others, he has some invisible distinctions, some latent reserve of excellence, which he throws into the balance, and by which he generally fancies that it is turned in his favour.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Suffering, Excellence

  Samuel Johnson, Peter Martin (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.178, Harvard University Press

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• I can't for the life of me imagine that God would say, 'I will punish you because you are black; you should have been white. I will punish you because you are a woman; you should have been a man. I punish you because you are homosexual; you ought to have been heterosexual. I can't, I can't for the life of me believe that that is how God sees things.

  Desmond Tutu

  Believe, Men, Should Have

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• I always imagine that I want to make art that is going to kill you,whether it’s going to do it visually or physically, I’ll take either way.

  Robert Longo

  Art, Want, Way

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• No one imagines that a law professing to tax will be permitted to destroy.

  John Marshall

  Law, Imagine, Taxes

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• If it is hard to imagine that 20% of losses on the stock market, you should never participate

  John C. Bogle

  Loss, Imagine, Should

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• I do not understand girls who imagine that something forbidden. You can prohibit someone, but did not imagine.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Girl, Imagine, Forbidden

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• I believe the religion of Christ covers the whole man. Why shouldn't a man play baseball or lawn-tennis? ... Don't imagine that you have got to go into a cave to be consecrated, and stay there all your life. Whatever you take up, take it up with all your heart.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Baseball, Believe, Heart

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• Virtually everything that the government does costs more than when the same thing is done in private industry - whether it is building housing, running prisons, collecting garbage, or innumerable other things. Why in the world would we imagine that health care would be the exception?

  Thomas Sowell

  Running, Government, Doe

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• Imagine that each time you inhale, that the universe is breathing into you, and as you exhale it is breathing out of you.

  Andrew Weil

  Breathing, Imagine, Inhale

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• My dear friend, do not imagine that I am vain enough to ascribe our success [Revolution] to any superiority . . . If it had not been for the justice of our cause, and the consequent interposition of Providence, in which we had faith, we must have been ruined. If I had ever before been an atheist, I should now have been convinced of the being and government of a Deity!

  Benjamin Franklin

  Atheist, Government, Justice

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  There are too many people who imagine that there is something sophisticated about always believing the best of those who hate your country, and the worst of those who defend it.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Hate, Believe

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• I imagine that in a closed, hermetic society like the mob, where everybody knows each other, it must be really, really unpleasant to have to kill people. It's the sort of thing you really want to avoid.

  Andrew Dominik

  People, Want, Imagine

  "Director Andrew Dominik Talks KILLING THEM SOFTLY, His Desire to Release a New Cut of JESSE JAMES, His Marilyn Monroe Biopic BLONDE, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 29, 2012.

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• For me it sounds weird saying that the filmmakers respect the film. I don't imagine that there's other ways to make a film, but unfortunately there is.

  Fede Alvarez

  Sound, Way, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• Money actually becomes even more difficult than other things because it's very hard to imagine what the benefits are to saving. So, imagine that you see a new bicycle, a new pair of shoes, or something today. You know exactly what you are giving up if you are not buying it, what are you gaining in the future if you are not getting it. So, you are giving up the bicycle today, what is it in the future? What will happen if you send another $1,000 to your retirement fund? What difference will it make? It is very, very hard to figure out.

  Dan Ariely

  Retirement, Giving Up, Shoes

  The Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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• I would imagine that most of the people who consider themselves successful aren't, at least in the ways that really matter-myself included.

  Dov Davidoff

  Success, People, Matter

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• Some of the guys I played with .. didn't go around learning more about their instruments from an intellectual point of view. All they wanted was to play hot jazz, and the instrument was just a means. I'd imagine that a lot of them criticized me-said my technique was too good. Something like that. But I've always wanted to know what made music. How you do it, and why it sounds good. I always practiced, worked like hell.

  Benny Goodman

  Mean, Learning, Views

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• If you remove a treehouse from a tree, than it's just a shitty house. Sometimes when i'm in a shitty house, I like to imagine that it's in a tree, than it's like Woah, this house is amazing.

  Demetri Martin

  House, Tree, Sometimes

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