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• What if we just acknowledged that we have a bad relationship, and we stuck it out, anyway? What if we admitted that we make each other nuts, we fight constantly and hardly ever have sex, but we can't live without each other, so we deal with it? And then we could spend our lives together - in misery, but happy to not be apart.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Sex, Fighting, Bad Relationship

  "Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia". Book by Elizabeth Gilbert, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2006.

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• What if every seemingly isolated object was actually just where the continuous wave of that object poked through into our world?

  Reuben Heyday Margolin

  Motivation, Inspiration, Our World

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• What if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing?

  Amory Lovins

  Motivation, Inspiration, Energy

  "Climate Change: No Breakthroughs Needed". sustainability.asu.edu. June 27, 2016.

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• I don’t think there's ever been a point in my career where I've said, 'I've made it.' What does that mean, 'I've made it?' Made it to what? If you say, 'I've made it.' then are you finished? I don't want to be finished. I don't want to quit.

  Reba McEntire

  Mean, Thinking, Careers

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• Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights). So strong and far-reaching are these rights that they raise the question of what, if anything, the state and its officials may do. How much room do individual rights leave for the state?

  Robert Nozick

  Strong, Rights, Groups

  Robert Nozick (1974). “Anarchy, state, and utopia”

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• What if I travel so far away in my dreams that I can't get back in time to wake up?

  Ruth Ozeki

  Dream, Wake Up, Far Away

  Ruth Ozeki (2013). “A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel”, Penguin

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• What if this young woman, who writes such bad poems, in competition with her husband, whose poems are equally bad, should stretch her remarkably long and well-made legs out before you, so that her skirt slips up to the tops of her stockings?

  Gilbert Sorrentino

  Husband, Writing, Long

  Gilbert Sorrentino (1971). “Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things”

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• What if I'm an angel without wings to take me home?

  Emilie Autumn

  Home, Angel, Wings

  Song: Epilogue: What If, 2007

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• I suppose it's possible that the Sundance Kid didn't like to make much of his birthdays — they may have struck him as just another reminder that his draw was getting slower by the year—but what if he truly liked a major celebration? What if he looked forward every year to marking the day of his birth with what they used to call in the West 'a real wingding, with pink balloons and a few survivors'?

  Calvin Trillin

  Real, Kids, Years

  Calvin Trillin (1990). “Travels with Alice”

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• What if miliseconds influence centuries?

  Robert Cowley

  Influence, Century, Ifs

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• What if the world is holding its breath -
  waiting for you to take the place that only you can fill?

  David Whyte

  Waiting, World, Breaths

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• What if we truly believed that there is a beneficent order to things, a force that's holding things together without our conscious control? What if we could see, in our daily lives, the working of that force? What if we believed it loved us somehow and cared for us, and protected us? What if we believed we could afford to relax?

  Marianne Williamson

  Order, Relax, Together

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• "But if God is so good as you represent Him, and if He knows all that we need, and better far than we do ourselves, why should it be necessary to ask Him for anything?" I answer, "What if He knows prayer to be the thing we need first and most? What if the main object in God's idea of prayer be the supplying of our great, our endless need - the need of Himself?"

  George MacDonald

  God, Christian, Religious

  George Macdonald (2012). “Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• Whatever outrageous dream keeps flowing across your mind, allow it to live inside you. Don't deflect it, diminish it, invalidate it or come up with some excuse for why it can't happen. This will allow it to explain itself to you - why it's there, what it means, and what if anything you should do about it.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Dream, Mean

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 09, 2013

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• What if God’s 'NO,’ is really a gift? His way to protect us from what we cannot see, provide something better than we can imagine, or be part of the process of growing us closer to Him.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Saying No, Growing, Way

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Jun 08, 2014

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• I have a rule, and that is to never look at somebody's face while we're having sex; because, number one, what if I know the guy?

  Laura Kightlinger

  Sex, Numbers, Guy

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• Keep integrity and your work ethics intact. So what if that means working a little harder; an honorable character is your best calling card, and that's something anyone can have!

  Kathy Ireland

  Integrity, Character, Mean

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• What if consciousness is the ground of being? What if the possibilities discovered by quantum physics are the possibilities of consciousness itself? Remember there is already a class of people who think in this way. They are called mystics, and they say it is all God. Finally, a few scientists dared to say that some of the characteristics attributed to God are similar to what we describe as consciousness.

  Amit Goswami

  Thinking, Class, People

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• What if I jumped out of an airplane with a couple of tanks of helium and one huge, un-inflated balloon? Then, while falling, I release the helium and fill the balloon. How long of a fall would I need in order for the balloon to slow me enough that I could land safely?

  Colin Rowe

  Couple, Fall, Airplane

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• What if God's a woman? Not only am I going to hell, I'll never know why!

  Adam Ferrara

  Funny, Humor, Comedy

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

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• We don’t need more ‘What if the mother is going to die’ debated, we need ‘I had an abortion because I was not ready to be a mother. It was my choice and my right. I own it. Back the f@#( up.

  Neko Case

  Mother, Choices, Abortion

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• What if you have a genuine and captivating beauty that is marred only by your striving?

  Stasi Eldredge

  Captivating, Strive, Genuine

  John Eldredge, Stasi Eldredge (2011). “Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul”, p.66, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• But what if I fail? You will. A better question might be, ‘after I fail, what then?’ If you’ve chosen well, after you fail you will be one step closer to succeeding, you will be wiser and stronger and you almost certainly will be more respected by all of those that are afraid to try.

  Seth Godin

  Stronger, Trying, Succeed

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• We like to look for patterns and find connections in unrelated events. This way we can explain them to ourselves. Life seems neater, or at least less messy. We need to feel we are in control: it is integral to our self-esteem. We also know, though we deny it, that we are not in control. So we settle for the illusions of control. What if we stopped fooling ourselves?

  Jessica Zafra

  Self Esteem, Patterns, Illusion Of Control

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• What if all it took to bring us to our knees and to ignite our affections was the Word opened and the presence of God? What if that was enough for us? What if it didn't take a great band to evoke that kind of response from us in worship? What if His presence - His Word opened - what if it was enough?

  David Platt

  Band, Knees, Affection

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