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• When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they do not see how they can get rid of it. Nevertheless, both arrive; and the gods have ordered it so, in the end men seek it from the gods

  Epictetus

  Men, Suffering, Unhappy

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• Imagine having a mother who worries that you read too much. The question is, what is it that's supposed to happen to people who read too much? How can you tell when someone's crossed the line.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Mother, People, Worry

  Helen Oyeyemi (2014). “Boy, Snow, Bird”, p.57, Pan Macmillan

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• There are some who maintain that trade will regulate itself, and it is not to be benefited by the encouragements or restraints of government. Such persons will imagine that there is no need of a common directing power. This is one of those wild speculative paradoxes, which have grown into credit among us, contrary to the uniform practice and sense of the most enlightened nations.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Encouragement, Government, Practice

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1875). “The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States : a Collection of Essays”, p.154

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• Adversity is not a dead end but a detour to a better outcome than you can imagine!

  Jon Gordon

  Adversity, Stay Positive, Detours

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• Ethiopians imagine their gods as black and snub-nosed; Thracians blue-eyed and red-haired. But if horses or lions had hands, or could draw and fashion works as men do, horses would draw the gods shaped like horses and lions like lions, making the gods resemble themselves.

  Xenophanes

  Fashion, Horse, Humility

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• The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it.

  Edward Abbey

  Thinking, Vanity, World

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.12, RosettaBooks

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• One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principles of common sense, as validated each day by work, play, and living experience. But this remains the most utopian and fantastic of ideals.

  Edward Abbey

  Play, Common Sense, Healthy

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.21, RosettaBooks

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• I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked him if he'd been drunk the night before, he would always answer offhandedly, 'Oh, I imagine.' I've always liked that answer. It acknowledges life as a dream.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Dream, Night, Drunk

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.180, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not know, or so much love, what we do love. I imagine the fish out of water is the only fish to have an inkling of water.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dark, Water, Age

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat. A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour. It might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did.

  George Jones

  Taken, Keys, Half

  George Jones (2014). “I Lived to Tell It All”, p.140, Dell

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• Man's rise or fall, success or failure, happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude ... a man's attitude will create the situation he imagines.

  James Lane Allen

  Success, Attitude, Fall

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• I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act

  Jurgen Habermas

  Political, September 11, Crime

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• I can't imagine a duller fate than being the best-dressed woman in reality. When I want to do something, I don't pause to contemplate whether I'm exquisitely gowned. I want to live, not pose!

  Carole Lombard

  Fate, Reality, Want

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

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• I get a great laugh from artists who ridicule the critics as parasites and artists manqués — sucha horrible joke. I can’t imagine a more perfect art form, a moreperfect career than criticism. I can’t imagine anything more valuableto do.

  Manny Farber

  Art, Careers, Perfect

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• Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress. You have to imagine something before you do it.

  Joan Aiken

  Progress, World, Want

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• Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Thinking, Complexes

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• It has been said that man can create anything which he can imagine.

  Napoleon Hill

  Men, Said, Has Beens

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, James Breckenridge Jones, Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and Grow Rich, Updated and Complete - With If You Can Count to Four...”, p.85, Lulu.com

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• A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what it is to be.  It allows us to have the life we are denied because we are too busy living.  Even more paradoxically, poetry permits us to live in ourselves as if we were just out of reach of ourselves.

  Mark Strand

  Busy, Permit, Made

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• Your vision is not limited by what your eye can see, but by what your mind can imagine.

  Ellison Onizuka

  Eye, Deep Thought, Mind

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• Imagine a history teacher making history.

  Christa McAuliffe

  Teacher, Making History, Global Village

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• I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.

  Terry Brooks

  Book, Healing, Breathing

  Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.46, Del Rey

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• There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, People, Stupidity

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.7, Oscar Wilde

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• There was nothing unusual about my victory. The entire story was back in eighth place. There is simply no way to imagine how good Jim Ryun is or how far he will go after he becomes an adult. What he did was more significant than Roger Bannister's first mile under 4 minutes.

  Dyrol Burleson

  Running, Victory, Adults

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• There are two classes of Christians: the proud who imagine they are humble and the humble who are afraid they are proud. There should be another class: the self-forgetful who leave the whole thing in the hands of Christ and refuse to waste any time trying to make themselves good. They will reach the goal far ahead of the rest.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Humble, Humility

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• Whether they really believe in their brave new world, however, is ultimately beside the point. They're building it. And in the friction-free future, jacked into paradise, we'll have the 'liberty' of living (or rather, or buying the illusion of living), through the benevolent offices of a middleman as nearly omnipotent as god himself. Freedom? A more perfect captivity is difficult to imagine.

  Mark Slouka

  Believe, Brave New World, Perfect

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