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• What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There's never need to fear Violence of the poor world's abstract storm.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Fear, Sleep, Math

  Robert Penn Warren, John Burt (1998). “The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren”, p.128, LSU Press

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• Searching for the self when I was entirely alone was hazardous. What if I found not so much a great emptiness as a space full of unpleasant contents, a compound of long-hidden truths, closeted, buried, forgotten. When I went looking, I was playing a desperate game of hide-and-seek, fearful of what I might find, most afraid that I would find nothing.

  Doris Grumbach

  Self, Games, Space

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• What if we discover that our present way of life is irreconcilable with our vocation to become fully human?

  Paulo Freire

  Life, Destiny, Way

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• The lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over the years, and on how much affection for it they have.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Years, People, Important

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What if people really did that - sent their love through the mail to get rid of it? What would it be that they sent? A box of chocolates with centers like the yolks of turkey eggs. A mud doll with hollow eye sockets. A heap of roses slightly more fragrant than rotten. A package wrapped in bloody newspaper that nobody would want to open.

  Alice Munro

  Eye, Turkeys, Eggs

  Alice Munro (1999). “The love of a good woman: stories”, Penguin, 1999

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• What if capitalism is unsustainable, and socialism is impossible?

  Ken MacLeod

  Impossible, Socialism, Capitalism

  "The Falling Rate of Profit, Red Hordes and Green Slime: What the Fall Revolution Books Are About". "Nova Express", Volume 6, Spring/Summer 2001.

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• What if we're all like that? Like ghosts ... in someone's mind ... gradually fading ... fading ... until finally ... one day ... we just disappear ... drift into nothingness. Wouldn't that be sad?

  Walter Wykes

  Memories, Mind, One Day

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• The incredible story of progress that is America has always been built by those who ask why, what if, and why not. Our schools must begin instilling that wonder in our children again so that their generation will unite around the next great project of our time, whether it be declaring America energy independent or launching the next great technological revolution.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Children, School

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• What if, instead of a parallel universe, there's a perpendicular universe? Discuss.

  Robert Breault

  Parallel Universe, Parallels, Ifs

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• I just have a hard time with small talk. My friend Jocelyn says I'm too quiet, but I'm really not quiet. I just tend to come across that way to new people because I don't like to talk first. What if the other person doesn't want to be bothered?

  Lauren Barnholdt

  Hard Times, People, Want

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• The big thing is that if you don't try something, you'll always wonder. What could that have been like? What if...?

  Maria Shriver

  Trying, Wonder, Bigs

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• What if you woke up this morning and had only the things you thanked God for yesterday?

  Max Lucado

  Morning, Yesterday, Ifs

  Twitter post from Nov 8, 2011

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• What if getting bigger isn't the point? What if you merely got better?

  Seth Godin

  Bigger, Ifs

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• Would you take a billion dollars, if as part of the deal the Earth were made uninhabitable a year after your death? ... well, of course not; you care about your friends, above all your children, any grandchildren. But ... what if the deal calls for the planet to be poisoned a thousand years later? We feel strong obligations to generations in the near future - should we not feel the same way about our children's great-grandchildren and generations beyond them?

  John Cleese

  Strong, Children, Years

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• WHAT IF we all treat other people as we wish to be treated? MORE happiness. LESS selfishness, crime, fraud, hatred, terrorism, wars.

  Phil Harding

  Friendship, Relationship, Family

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• What if we never 'get over' certain deaths, or our childhoods? What if the idea that we should have by now, or will, is a great palace lie? What if we're not supposed to? What if it takes a life time...?

  Anne Lamott

  Lying, Should Have, Ideas

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• A lot of amateurs are terrified of going up against a player who is clearly better than they are. They never play their best, because they aren't comfortable. There's one surefire way to get over that, and it's to ask yourself, 'What if I beat him?' Imagine the possibility.

  Fuzzy Zoeller

  Player, Way, Imagine

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• ~I try to call my mother, Betty, with more regularity because I think, What if Hazel didn't call me for two weeks? I'm able to see her mothering now from a different vantage point.~

  Julia Roberts

  Mother, Parenting, Thinking

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• As they used to say 'What if they gave a war and nobody came?' How worthwhile if they declared a day of peace and everybody came.

  Ed Asner

  Peace, War, Used

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• What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.

  Ralph Marston

  Love, Inspirational, Thank You

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• My 20s was a sea of worry. I worried about benefit forms, about being thrown out of my flat. I never went on holiday because I thought: 'What if an audition comes up?' I was a nervous wreck.

  David Nicholls

  Holiday, Sea, Worry

  "David Nicholls, the man who made a nation cry" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2011.

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• What if, along with our 'to do' list, we had a 'to be' list too?

  Ken Johnston

  Vision, Lists, Ifs

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• What if you could be anything, or anybody, you chose to be? Think about it. What would you choose to be?

  Nido R Qubein

  Teacher, Thinking, You Choose

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• Until that time, her betrayals had filled her with excitement and joy, because they opened up new paths to new adventures of betrayal. But what if the paths came to an end? One could betray one's parents, husband, country, love, but when parents, husband, country, and love were gone - what was left to betray?

  Milan Kundera

  Country, Husband, Betrayal

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• We'd like to be humble...but what if no one notices?

  John Ortberg

  Humble, Humility, Christian Inspirational

  John Ortberg (1997). “The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People”, p.173, Harper Collins

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