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“We worked out a lot of bugs and figured out who was working and who wasn't and how this beast functions. It was a lot bigger than we actually thought, and now we have a well-run ship where it feels I can actually have time to imagine and not just stress out about everything.”

Feels Wells I Can Running Artist Imagine Function Bigger Stress Ships Beast Bugs

Author:Genevieve Gorder

“The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.”

People Real Moments Actors Acting Audience Imagine Happenings Function Real Things

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“I hesitate to say what the functions of the modern journalist may be, but I imagine that they do not exclude the intelligent anticipation of the facts even before they occur.”

May Facts Imagine Modern Function Intelligent Journalist Imagine That Anticipation

Author:George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

“The idea that we are "stewards of the earth" is another symptom of human arrogance. Imagine yourself with the task of overseeing your body's physical processes. Do you understand the way it works well enough to keep all its systems in operation? Can you make your kidneys function? Can you control the removal of waste? Are you conscious of the blood flow through your arteries, or the fact that you are losing a hundred thousand skin cells a minute?”

“If you were to hire household staff to cook, clean, drive, stoke the fire, and answer the door, can you imagine suggesting that they not talk to each other, not see what each other is doing, not coordinate their functions?”

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Author:Nicholas Negroponte

“There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dormant only because the people in question have lived relatively comfortable, middle class lives. They function perfectly well in the world, but you can imagine, given a nasty parent, or a prolonged bout of unemployment, how their potential for craziness might have been realized.”

“The function of art is to do more than tell it like it is-it’s to imagine what is possible.”

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Book:Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations

Source: Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations

“I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be years before I learned that females possessed the only organ in the human body with no function than to feel pleasure. (If such an organ were unique to the male body, can you imagine how much we would hear about it—and what it would be used to justify?)”

Ifs Feels Years Humans Body Would Be Used Pleasure Imagine Heard Example Unique Female Function Males Justify Possessed Organs Accurate Human Body

Author:Gloria Steinem

“Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement. Only if poets and writers set themselves tasks that no one else dares imagine will literature continue to have a function.”

Ifs Literature Goal Alive Imagine Poet Achievement Tasks Function Remains Dare

Book:Six Memos for the Next Millennium

Source: Six Memos for the Next Millennium