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• When you truly commit in your life, you start receiving more than you could imagine.

  Jeff Bridges

  Motivation, Receiving, Commit

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• God is not what you imagine or what you think you understand. If you understand you have failed.

  Saint Augustine

  God, Thinking, Ifs

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• Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without, you see no glory, nor can possibly imagine any; standing within, every ray of light reveals a harmony of unspeakable splendors.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Faith, Light, Rays

  "Marble Faun the Romance of Monte Beni Vo".

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• ... we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.

  Lucretius

  Children, Halloween, Dark

  Titus Lucretius Carus, William Henry Denham Rouse, Martin Ferguson Smith (1975). “De rerum natura”, Harvard University Press ; London : Heinemann

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• Our role is to imagine products that don't exist and guide them to life.

  Christopher Stringer

  Design, Roles, Consciousness

  "Christopher Stringer, Apple Design Veteran, Calls iPhone Crafters ‘Maniacal’" by Poornima Gupta and Dan Levine, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2012.

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• I remember thinking, "Far out, I can't believe this," when I started riding waves. Then I was starting to imagine where it could take me.

  Mark Occhilupo

  Sports, Believe, Thinking

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• It's impossible to imagine what Australia would be like without surfing.

  Tim Winton

  Sports, Australia, Surfing

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• In the end, the key ingredient for public life is imagination. You imagine something better, you try to bring the people with you.

  Paul Keating

  Leadership, Keys, People

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• We took the traditional lands and smashed the traditional way of life. We brought the diseases and the alcohol. We committed the murders. We took the children from their mothers. We practised discrimination and exclusion. It was our ignorance and our prejudice. And our failure to imagine that these things could be done to us.

  Paul Keating

  Leadership, Mother, Children

  "Keating speech still powerful 25 years on". www.dailymail.co.uk. December 8, 2017.

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• The greatest danger hanging over our children and grandchildren is initiation of changes that will be irreversible on any time scale that humans can imagine.

  James Hansen

  Children, Energy, Environment

  "Coal-fired power stations are death factories. Close them" by James Hansen, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2009.

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• I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place where you were continually bored.

  Erich Fromm

  Blessing, Bores You, Boredom

  Erich Fromm (2014). “The Dogma of Christ: and Other Essays on Religion, Psychology and Culture”, p.104, Open Road Media

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• No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or equally fast. We are accustomed to determine duration by the aid of some measure of motion.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Words Of Wisdom, Doubt, Body

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• I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior FBI-men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school. ... Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Dirty, School, Writing

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have understood what women want and that they are capable of giving it to them. They help with the dishes at home and make their own coffee in the office, basking the while in the refulgent consciousness of virtue. Such men are apt to think of the true male feminists as utterly chauvinistic.

  Germaine Greer

  Coffee, Home, Men

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• We intend to make this world the most beautiful, glorious planet that any human being can imagine and, really, beyond anything any human being can imagine.

  Hafsat Abiola

  Beautiful, Black History, World

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• Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.

  Paracelsus

  Writing, Fruit, Grapes

  Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.117, Princeton University Press

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• Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Writing, Looking Back

  Journal, July 1922

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• To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.

  Eudora Welty

  Writing, Story Writers, Doe

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• Just imagine walking away from something you've started. Something you really believed would be good. I don't think I could ever do that.

  Jo Nesbo

  Moving, Thinking, Walking Away

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• The majority of people imagine a chess master as being a townsman who passes his life in an atmosphere of smoke and play in cafes and clubs: a neurasthenic individual, whose nerves and brains are continually working at tension: a one-sided person who has given up his whole soul to chess.

  Richard Reti

  Play, People, Soul

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• Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stone-washed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library. And - since women are a majority of the population - we'd all be married to Mel Gibson.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Life, Brother, Book

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.207, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• In some departments of our daily life, in which we imagine ourselves free agents, we are ruled by dictators exercising great power.

  Edward Bernays

  Life, Freedom, Exercise

  Edward L. Bernays (1930). “Propaganda”

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• The day that hunger is eradicated from the earth there will be the greatest spiritual explosion the world has ever known. Humanity cannot imagine the joy that will burst into the world.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Spiritual, Joy, Humanity

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• Imagine if we succeed in inspiring our audiences to reduce their own impacts on climate change by just 1 percent. That would be like turning the state of California off for almost two months.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Inspirational, Impact, Two

  "Rupert Murdoch launches effort to green News Corp.’s operations and programming". grist.org. May 9, 2007.

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• Now I really make the little idea from clay, and I hold it in my hand. I can turn it, look at it from underneath, see it from one view, hold it against the sky, imagine it any size I like, and really be in control almost like God creating something.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Views, Hands

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