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• You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

  Charles Kingsley

  Best Friend, Character, Cute Friendship

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• We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance.

  Marcel Proust

  Death, Grieving, Filled In

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• The average schoolmaster is and always must be essentially an ass, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation.

  H. L. Mencken

  Education, Intelligent, Men

  H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

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• Believe! Believe in the limitless supply of God's goodness. The universe is filled with more wonders than you can imagine.

  Wilferd Peterson

  God, Faith, Christian

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• The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.

  Jon Meacham

  Past, Greatness, History

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• Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own.

  David McCullough

  Country, People, History

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• Man can only become what he is able to consciously imagine, or to 'image forth'.

  Dane Rudhyar

  Hope, Men, Creating

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• It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.

  Seneca the Younger

  Leadership, Motivation, Impossible

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• In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness that doesn't have that much to do with everyday thinking. It's as if you could imagine life before there were words.

  Charlie Haden

  Music, Thinking, Creating

  FaceBook post by Charlie Haden from Feb 15, 2015

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• It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified by the applause or enriched by the success of popular actions.

  Samuel Adams

  Loyalty, Wisdom, Mistake

  "Loyalty and Sedition". Essay published in The Advertiser, 1748.

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• It's hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself and secure the surrender of Saddam's security forces and his army. Hard to imagine.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  War, Army, Iraq

  "Wolfowitz On U.S. Role In Other Nations' Affairs". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. September 5, 2009.

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• There is not a Musselman alive who would not imagine that he was performing an action pleasing to God and his Holy Prophet by exterminating every Christian on earth, while the Christians are scarcely more tolerant on their side.

  Denis Diderot

  Christian, Holy Prophet, Religion

  "Conversations with a Christian Lady". "Selected Writings", edited by Lester G. Crocker, 1966.

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• I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Reality

  "Possible worlds, and other essays". Book by J. B. S. Haldane, 1927.

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• I consider Christianity to be one of the great disasters of the human race... It would be impossible to imagine anything more un - Christianlike than theology.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Race, Religion, Would Be

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• A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Science, Vacuums

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• There are more microbes per person than the entire population of the world. Imagine that. Per person. This means that if the time scale is diminished in proportion to that of space it would be quite possible for the whole story of Greece and Rome to be played out between farts.

  Alan Bennett

  Mean, Science, Space

  Alan Bennett (2009). “Alan Bennett Plays 2: Kafka's Dick; Insurance Man; Old Country; Englishman Abroad; Question of Attribution”, p.212, Faber & Faber

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• Imagine a survivor of a failed civilization with only a tattered book on aromatherapy for guidance in arresting a cholera epidemic. Yet, such a book would more likely be found amid the debris than a comprehensible medical text.

  James Lovelock

  Book, Science, Epidemics

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• The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Jobs

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• I imagine a future where many of us will call ourselves dancers and collaborate to make an art which concerns itself with primary areas of life... for me, peace is a communal work process, a collective vision. The dance itself tries to exemplify a few of these methods in a truly grounded and practical way so that the people can say: yes, there are prospects of survival.

  Anna Halprin

  Dance, Art, People

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• It's the emotional trigger points that are important to me because I know if I could believe in the characters and try and imagine how they felt then I'd be able to do something quite honest.

  Graeme Murphy

  Dance, Art, Believe

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• In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for Divine protection," he stated. "Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered. ... Do we imagine we no longer need His assistance?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Prayer, 4th Of July, Needs

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• Probably the most potent desire for a painter, an image-maker, is to see it. To see what the mind can think and imagine, to realize it for oneself, through oneself, as concretely as possible.

  Philip Guston

  Thinking, Mind, Vision

  Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.281, Univ of California Press

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• We imagine a school in which students and teachers excitedly and joyfully stretch themselves to their limits in pursuit of projects built on their own visions … not one that that merely succeeds in making apathetic students satisfy minimal standards.

  Seymour Papert

  Teacher, Teaching, School

  "Vision for Education: The Caperton-Papert Platform" by Seymour Papert and Gaston Caperton, www.papert.org. August 1999.

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• The universe may be timeless, but if you imagine breaking it into pieces, some of the pieces can serve as clocks for the others. Time emerges from timelessness. We perceive time because we are, by our very nature, one of those pieces.

  Craig Callender

  Time, Pieces, May

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• Imagine a man who doesn't believe in anything, hope for anything, doesn't love anyone. This is a description of a dead or paralyzed soul. This happens from great grief, or from an unhappy upbringing when parents make from their children's souls paralytics.

  Simon Soloveychik

  Hope, Children, Believe

  "Parenting for Everyone". Book by Simon Soloveychik, 1989.

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