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• Go into the sport because you have fun doing it, not because of 'what ifs' and dreams of gold medals. That way, no matter what happens, you win.

  Shannon Miller

  Sports, Dream, Fun

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• What if in my waking hours a sound should ring through the silent halls of hearing? ... Would the bow and string tension of life snap? Would the heart over weighted with sudden joy stop beating for very excess of happiness?

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Heart, Joy

  Helen Keller, Annie Sullivan (1905). “The Story of My Life”

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• We all obsess about what we are doing and accomplishing. What if we let it go and simply made the way we live our lives our accomplishment?

  Maria Shriver

  Inspirational, Accomplishment, Empowering

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

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• What if it was cats who invented technology, would they have TV shows starring rubber sqeaky toys?

  Douglas Coupland

  Cat, Technology, Tv Shows

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• You might say what if I screw up? Then screw up big! Go for it! Do a big screw-up!

  Tony Robbins

  Might, Screw Ups, Action

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• Many of us have created lives that give very little support for experimentation. We believe that answers already exist out there, independent of us. What if we invested more time and attention to our own experimentation? We could focus our efforts on discovering solutions that work uniquely for us.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Work, Believe, Passion

  Margaret J. Wheatley, Myron E. Rogers (1998). “A Simpler Way”, p.21, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Ambition, Vanity, Words Of Wisdom

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Dawn of Day”, p.80, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• The what-if's and the should-have's will eat your brain.

  John O'Callaghan

  Encouragement, Should Have, Worry

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• Time is in itself [not] a difficulty, but a time-rate, assumed on very insufficient grounds, is used as a master-key, whether or not it fits, to unravel all difficulties. What if it were suggested that the brick-built Pyramid of Hawara had been laid brick by brick by a single workman? Given time, this would not be beyond the bounds of possibility. But Nature, like the Pharaohs, had greater forces at her command to do the work better and more expeditiously than is admitted by Uniformitarians.

  Joseph Prestwich

  Nature, Science, Keys

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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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• What if history was changed? slavery reversed
  Would black ladies see white boys and clinch they purse?

  Fredro Starr

  Rap, Boys, White

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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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• 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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• 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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• I don't think we should speak so much. What if we were singing a song? We split, whilst singing.

  Jean Gabin

  Song, Thinking, Sight

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• If I am a fool then it is no misfortune, for then only one more fool will wander this Earth. Amongst the millions of mentally deranged it would barely be noticed. But what if I am not a fool, and that science itself has erred? Then the tragedy is incalculable!

  Viktor Schauberger

  Tragedy, Earth, Fool

  Viktor Schauberger, Callum Coats (1999). “The Water Wizard – The Extraordinary Properties of Natural Water: Volume 1 of Renowned Environmentalist Viktor Schauberger’s Eco-Technology Series”, p.95, Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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• Bravery and adventure! That's the ticket! Don't sit and gather moss. Get up, get out, do what you dream of doing, and if it doesn't work, it doesn't work, and you don't need to made that particular mistake again, but at least you won't get old wondering what if you had.

  Garrison Keillor

  Dream, Mistake, Adventure

  Garrison Keillor (2009). “A Christmas Blizzard: A Novel”, p.36, Penguin

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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 loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more?

  Chang-Rae Lee

  Mean, Frustrated, Littles

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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 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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• What if Jesus' secret message reveals a secret plan?”. What if he didn't come to start a new religion-but rather came to start a political, social, religious, artistic, economic, intellectual, and spiritual revolution that would give birth to a new world?

  Brian D. McLaren

  Spiritual, Religious, Jesus

  Brian D. McLaren (2007). “The Secret Message of Jesus: Uncovering the Truth that Could Change Everything”, p.4, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• What if the church should be less concerned with creating saints than creating a world where we do not need saints? A world where people like Mother Teresa and MLK would have nothing to do.

  Peter Rollins

  Mother, Creating, People

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• If churches saw their mission in the same way, there is no telling what might happen. What if people were invited to come tell what they already know of God instead of to learn what they are supposed to believe? What if they were blessed for what they are doing in the world instead of chastened for not doing more at church? What if church felt more like a way station than a destination? What if the church’s job were to move people out the door instead of trying to keep them in, by convincing them that God needed them more in the world than in the church?

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Jobs, Believe, Moving

  Barbara Brown Taylor (2011). “Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith”, p.222, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• What if things happened to you—special, magic things—because you’d been preparing for them?

  Jennifer McMahon

  Magic, Special, Preparing

  Jennifer McMahon (2011). “Don't Breathe a Word: A Novel”, p.33, Harper Collins

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