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• For every person who can imagine a possibility there are tens of thousands who are stuck in the greased grooves of history.

  Gary Hamel

  Imagination, Possibility, Groove

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• The political class can't imagine a decentralized world where good things happen...without them. But in the real world, that's exactly how good things happen, and how jobs are created. When government sets simple rules that everyone understands and then gets out of the way, free people create jobs.

  John Stossel

  Jobs, Real, Simple

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• Now majority rule is a precious, sacred thing worth dying for. But like other precious, sacred things .... it's not only worth dying for; it can make you wish you were dead. Imagine if all life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Majority Rule, Cynical, Democracy

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

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• I want to assure you that regardless of your circumstances, age, or sex, you can indeed start over, re-arousing from within yourself those earlier, more innocent expectations, feelings and beliefs. It is much better if you can imagine this endeavor more in the light of children's play, in fact, rather than think of it as a deadly serious adult pursuit.

  Seth Roberts

  Sex, Children, Thinking

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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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• I certainly don't regret my experiences because without them, I couldn't imagine who or where I would be today. Life is an amazing gift to those who have overcome great obstacles, and attitude is everything!

  Sasha Azevedo

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Attitude

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• When we try to imagine a chaos we fail. ... In its very fiber the mind is an order and refuses to build a chaos.

  George Iles

  Science, Order, Mind

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• Whoe'er imagines prudence all his own, Or deems that he hath powers to speak and judge Such as none other hath, when they are known, They are found shallow.

  Sophocles

  Conceited, Judging, Speak

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• The statement, "The debt problem has become so extreme that we have no choice but to cut social spending" is presented as an objective assessment of our situation. But can you imagine a media commentator making the following assertion? "The debt problem has become so extreme that we have no choice but to raise taxes on the rich."

  Linda McQuaig

  Cutting, Assessment, Media

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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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• Christianity teaches that, contra fatalism, suffering is overwhelming; contra Buddhism, suffering is real; contra karma, suffering is often unfair; but contra secularism, suffering is meaningful. There is a purpose to it, and if faced rightly, it can drive us like a nail deep into the love of God and into more stability and spiritual power than you can imagine.

  Timothy Keller

  Karma, God, Meaningful

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.29, Penguin

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• Imagine Jon Stewart if he gave a damn. He's like Howard Zinn after 12 beers.

  David Swanson

  Beer, Damn, Ifs

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• Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things to help you learn perfect patience, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion.

  Gautama Buddha

  Spiritual, Teacher, Compassion

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• You're not as smart as you think you are, but you've got more potential than you could possibly imagine. The secret from the one to other is humility.

  Michael Hyatt

  Smart, Humility, Thinking

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• It seems an insult to nature and to the Creator to imagine that pregnancy was ever intended to be a sickness.

  Eliza Bisbee Duffey

  Pregnancy, Insult, Sickness

  Eliza Bisbee Duffey (1873). “What Women Should Know: A Woman's Book about Women, Containing Practical Information for Wives and Mothers”, p.165

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• Prosperity has this property, it puffs up narrow Souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and look down upon the World with Contempt; but a truly noble and resolved Spirit appears greatest in Distress, and then becomes more bright and conspicuous.

  Plutarch

  Soul, Looks, Noble

  "Plutarch's Lives in Eight Volumes".

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• When designing an interface, imagine that your program is all that stands between the user and hot, sweaty, tangled-bedsheets-fingertips-digging-into-the-back sex.

  Randall Munroe

  Sex, Tangled, Design

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• Ooh! Jesus Christ had dreads, so shake 'em.
  I ain't got none, but I'm planning on growing some.
  Imagine all the Hebrews going dumb...
  Dancing on top of chariots and turning tight ones.

  E-40

  Jesus, Rap, Dancing

  Song: Tell Me When To Go, Album: My Ghetto Report Card, 2006

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• This is a great country and requires a good deal of all of us, so I can imagine nothing more important than for all of you to continue to work in public affairs and be interested in them, not only to bring up a family, but also give part of your time to your community, your state, and your country.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Giving, Community

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.621, Best Books on

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• I've long believed that one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation that anyone's child, even from the humblest of families, could grow up to own a business or a corporation. Thomas Jefferson dreamed of a land of small farmers, of shopowners, and merchants. Abraham Lincoln signed into law the Homestead Act that ensured that the great western prairies of America would be the realm of independent, propertyowning citizens-a mightier guarantee of freedom is difficult to imagine.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Growing Up, Independent

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.

  John Cage

  Music, Practice, Singing

  John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.28, Wesleyan University Press

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• I don’t believe in God as you imagine Him to be, but I believe in many things that you could never even dream of.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Believe, I Believe

  "Aleph". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2011.

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• My best way of making someone admit to something's wrongness is to have them imagine that thing done to them. Suddenly then it all becomes clear.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Life, Done, Way

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• Politicians live in little worlds of their own and imagine these are the universe.

  Michael Foot

  World, Littles, Politician

  "Another heart and other pulses: the alternative to the Thatcher society".

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• The Thanksgiving tradition is, we gorge. Hey, what about at Thanksgiving we simply consume a considerable measure? However we do that consistently! Goodness. Imagine a scenario where we consume a ton with individuals who pester the heck out of us.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Thanksgiving, Gorges, Hey

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