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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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• Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school? Are the people inside the school musical and the ones outside unmusical? What if the ones inside can't hear very well, would that change my question?

  John Cage

  School, Passing By, People

  John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.55, Wesleyan University Press

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• What if there were no hypothetical questions?

  George Carlin

  Inspirational, Life, Hypothetical

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• People always tell me "Have a nice day." Well what if I don't want to? What if I want to have a crappy day?

  George Carlin

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

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• What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?

  Jon Krakauer

  Running, Arms, Ifs

  "Into the Wild". m.imdb.com. 2007.

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• And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.

  Dr. Seuss

  Christmas, Holiday, Mean

  Dr. Seuss (1995). “Six by Seuss”, Prop Pub Juv

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• What if reality is nothing but some disease?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Life, Reality, Disease

  "Rant: The Oral Biography of Buster Casey". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 1, 2007.

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• What if we gave fifty percent of our discretionary budget to the world’s poor and then counted on the moral power of that action to protect us?

  Anne Lamott

  World, Fifty, Action

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• What if it were true that nature speaks in signs and that the secret to understanding its language consists in noticing similarities in shape or in form?

  Jeremy Narby

  Understanding, Secret, Shapes

  Jeremy Narby (1999). “The Cosmic Serpent”, p.37, Penguin

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• Well, the correct answer is he is not a Muslim, he’s a Christian. He’s always been a Christian. But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country?

  Colin Powell

  Christian, Country, Answers

  "Colin Powell Chooses Meet the Press to Endorse Barack Obama". "Meet the Press" with Tom Brokaw, www.adweek.com. October 19, 2008.

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• What if there's a fire?" Glenna said sweetly, and Cian merely smiled. "Then I guess you'd better open a window, and fly.

  Nora Roberts

  Fire, Window, Said

  Nora Roberts (2006). “Morrigan's Cross”, p.69, Penguin

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• We're taught to find the antecedents to our adult failures in childhood traumas, and so we spend our lives looking bacwards and pointing fingers, rather than bucking up and forging ahead. But what if your childhood was all a big misunderstanding? An elaborate ruse? What does that say about failure? Better yet, what does that say about potential?

  Heidi Julavits

  Childhood, Adults, Doe

  Heidi Julavits (2004). “The Effect of Living Backwards”, p.12, Penguin

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• Does people not asking me about Asian American literature mean they don't see it as its own literary tradition? I certainly believe in it as its own literary tradition, because your race plays a great factor in how you are seen by the world, and how you see the world; the fact that I'm an Asian American isn't incidental to who I am as a writer. Where it becomes difficult is defining what, if anything identifiable at all, makes an Asian American book an Asian American book, other than the fact of its creator being Asian. And I'd argue that there is nothing identifiable beyond that.

  Hanya Yanagihara

  Believe, Book, Mean

  Interview with Alexis Cheung, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.

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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 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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• 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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• 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 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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• I'm actively working hard on learning to appreciate yourself no matter what. If what someone else says can easily derail you, it means your sense of self isn't that firmly established in the first place. It's an inside job. You're beautiful and worthy and totally unique. People insult each other based on their own insecurities - even though it may feel personal, it really never is. Really. Seriously.

  Emma Stone

  Inspirational, Motivational, Beautiful

  "The Really Amazing Spider-Man 2 Star Emma Stone On Tuning Out The Haters And Owning Who You Are". Interview With Brittany Burke, www.seventeen.com. May 2, 2014.

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• I couldn't care less who I'm paired with. There's nobody I've ever played better or worse with, thank goodness. You don't want any factor to be outside your control. What if Arnie's Army had bothered me? What id I'd said, "Oh geez, I'm paired with Palmer," I'd never had beaten him.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Golf, Army, Care

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• What if you have seen it before, ten thousand times over? An apple tree in full blossom is like a message, sent fresh from heaven to earth, of purity and beauty.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Garden, Apples, Tree

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and ears”, p.290

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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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