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• In the future, I can imagine that we will genetically modify ourselves using the genes that have doubled our life span since we were chimpanzees.

  Michio Kaku

  Imagine, Genes, Chimpanzees

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• If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.

  Simon Hoggart

  Class, Daily Mail, Misery

  "Glad tidings we bring ..." by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2004.

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• It would be rather naive to imagine that Oprah doesn't have an Earth Evacuation Plan. You know Richard Branson does - his is in plain sight.

  John Hodgman

  Sight, Doe, Would Be

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There had been a popular joke on Freedom, started by a man named Calder. Looking down from space, he had said, the dominant life forms on Earth were obviously the cereals and other grasses. They occupied all the most desirable and fertile land; and they had tamed insects and animals to care for them. In particular, they had domesticated the bipeds to nurture and cultivate them and to save and plant their seed. Now, watching the farmers, Alex could easily imagine that they were worshiping and genuflecting before their masters.

  Larry Niven

  Men, Animal, Space

  Jerry Pournelle, Larry Niven, Michael Flynn (2002). “Fallen Angels”, p.232, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• The best day of my life happened when I was five and almost died at Disney World. I'm sixteen now, so you can imagine that's left me with quite a few days of major suckage.

  Libba Bray

  World, Sixteen, Imagine

  Libba Bray (2009). “Going Bovine”, p.1, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• I always imagine that if I met Dr. Seuss, he would be very similar to Crispin Glover.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Drs, Would Be, Imagine

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• None of us, irrespective of our sexual preference and/or practice, imagine that we can have an intimate relationship with a partner and always have seamless harmony. Indeed, most of us assume that once the “honeymoon” period is over differences will emerge and conflicts will happen. Positively, we also assume that we will be “safe“ in those moments; that even if voices are raised and emotions expressed are intense, there will not be and should not be any abuse or any reason to be unsafe, and that the will to connect and communicate will prevail.

  Bell Hooks

  Voice, Differences, Intimate Relationships

  bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom”, p.75, Routledge

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• That's what fantasies are for, to help us imagine that things are better than they are.

  Roger Ebert

  Helping, Fantasy, Imagine

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.414, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• We can assume that most people, most of the time, are moral creatures. But imagine that this morality is like a gearshift that at times gets pushed into neutral. When that happens, morality is disengaged. If the car happens to be on an incline, car and driver move precipitously downhill. It is then the nature of the circumstances that determines outcomes, not the driver's skills or intentions.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Moving, Skills, People

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• When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn’t imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I’m gone for six days it feels like too much.

  Adam Carolla

  Christmas, Dad, Kids

  "‘How Dare You!’: Q&A with Adam Carolla". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2010.

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• Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.

  Orlando Bloom

  Real, Journey, Class

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• What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

  Stephen Leacock

  Motivational, Teamwork, Years

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• Imagine that everything you are typing is being read by the person you are applying to for your first job. Imagine that it's all going to be seen by your parents and your grandparents and your grandchildren as well.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Jobs, Grandchildren, Grandparent

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• Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last. Imagine that you are doing this but that it is essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature...in order to found that edifice on its unavenged tears. Would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me. Tell the truth.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Destiny, Men, Order

  "The Brothers Karamazov". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, part 2, book 5, chapter 4, p. 291, 1945.

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• She liked to imagine that when she passed the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was.

  Alice Sebold

  Life, World, Imagine

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.177, Pan Macmillan

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• I would imagine that anyone picking up a book written by me would expect a fast-paced story that requires minimal effort to turn the pages. The reader would also be looking for some out-of-the-ordinary revelations along the way. At the end of the day, I'm a writer who simply loves revealing stuff that is out-of-the-ordinary.

  Ashwin Sanghi

  Book, Effort, The End Of The Day

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• This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.

  William Butler Yeats

  Air, Soul, London

  William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran (1969). “John Sherman & Dhoya”

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• In 1976, Jimmy Carter - peanut farmer; carried his own suitcase, imagine that - somewhat tapped America's durable but shallow reservoir of populism. By 1980, ordinariness in high office had lost its allure.

  George Will

  America, Office, Suitcases

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• I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writers, may not necessarily have tested highly on IQ just because of their numerical skills, or maybe they may not be very good at memory, and are not particularly good at these kinds of tests.

  Daniel Tammet

  Memories, Skills, May

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• I can't imagine that anybody is as screwed up as I am.

  Rick Springfield

  Imagine, Screwed Up, I Can

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• Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Buttons, Lord Henry

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.36, Prestwick House Inc

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• I'm one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do in life. With every place I go, I try to stay there long enough to do it justice, long enough so that I can at least imagine what it would be like to live there. Once I imagine that, then it's OK for me to return home.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Home, Long, Justice

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• Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.

  Maimonides

  Understanding, Opinion, Philosopher

  Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.283, Moses Maimonides

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• The first play I did was 'Philadelphia Here I Come.' Can you imagine that? I am 37 years old I am doing my second professional play and I am on stage with John Malkovich. Joan Allen, Laurie Metcalf and Gary Sinise. One huge name after another. I was terrified and petrified, could hardly get a word out of my mouth.

  John Mahoney

  Philadelphia, Years, Play

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• I can imagine that Rod Stewart likes giving autographs because he's pure showbusiness.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Giving, Likes, Imagine

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