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“It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everything that government does, of any significance, is conducted behind an extreme wall of secrecy. The very few leaks that we’ve had over the last decade are basically the only ways that we’ve had to learn what our government is doing.”

Way Doe Hard States Government Lasts United Behinds United States Imagine Wall Extremes Decades Significance Secrecy Leaks Secretive

Author:Glenn Greenwald

“A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth as easily as primitive people imagined the humors of the gods in fair weather. What is she to believe in if not in this vision woven from within?”

People Ifs Believe Feelings Faces Girl Behinds Vision Imagine Youth Fairs Moved Weather Primitive Sympathetic Eighteen Woven

Book:Romola: In Two Volumes

Source: Romola: In Two Volumes

“Imagine you are writing an email. You are in front of the computer. You are operating the computer, clicking a mouse and typing on a keyboard, but the message will be sent to a human over the internet. So you are working before the computer, but with a human behind the computer.”

Writing Humans Behinds Imagine Fronts Internet Computer Messages Mice Email Keyboards Typing

Author:Yukihiro Matsumoto

“Forgetfulness, the unhistorical, is ... the atmosphere, in which alone life can come into being. In order to understand it, let us imagine a youth who is seized with a passion for a woman, or a man who is swayed by a passion for his work. In both cases what lies behind them has ceased to exist and yet this state (the most unhistorical that can be imagined) is that in which every action, every great deed is conceived and accomplished.”

Men States Action Lying Order Passion Behinds Cases Imagine Youth Deeds Atmosphere Accomplished Forgetfulness Alone Life

Author:Georg Brandes

“Let but a single flash of reality -- the glimpse of a woman from afar or from behind -- enable us to project the image of Beauty before our eyes, and we imagine that we have recognised it, our hearts beat, and we will always remain half-persuaded that it was She, provided that the woman has vanished: it is only if we manage to overtake her that we realise our mistake.”

Ifs Heart Reality Eye Behinds Mistake Half Imagine Projects Beats Manage Realising Imagine That Flash Glimpse Afar Heart Beat

Book:In Search of Lost Time: Within a budding grove

Source: In Search of Lost Time: Within a budding grove

“To imagine that "God moves in mysterious ways" is to put up a smokescreen of mystery behind which fantasy may survive in spite of all the facts.”

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Author:Barbara Smoker

“The darling schemes and fondest hopes of man are frequently frustrated by time. While sagacity contrives, patience matures, and labor industriously executes, disappointment laughs at the curious fabric, formed by so many efforts, and gay with so many brilliant colors, and, while the artists imagine the work arrived at the moment of completion, brushes away the beautiful web, and leaves nothing behind.”

Men Moments Beautiful Artist Effort Behinds Laughing Imagine Color Gay Labor Disappointment Brilliant Curious Frustrated Schemes Fabric Brushes Darling Completion Sagacity

Author:Timothy Dwight V

“The general public have a warped view of the speed at which an investigation proceeds. They like to imagine tense conversations going on behind the venetian blinds and unshaven, but ruggedly handsome, detectives working themselves with single-minded devotion into the bottle and marital breakdown. The truth is that at the end of the day, unless you've generated some sort of lead, you go home and get on with the important things in life - like drinking and sleeping, and if you're lucky, a relationship with the gender and sexual orientation of your choice.”

Source: Moon Over Soho

“Impossible not to imagine the dead observing us. Our love for them a soft, shimmering gossamar that trails behind us.”

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Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“To be honest, I don't see myself acting forever. I just can't imagine myself being a 70-year-old man fighting for roles. I would love to do small parts in my friends' movies or things that I'm directing myself. I do envision myself behind the camera as I get a little bit older.”

Men Years Littles Fighting Bits Acting Behinds Roles Forever Imagine Honest Little Bit My Friends Cameras Being Honest Old Man Small Parts

Author:Dave Franco

“There is a narrative behind every image. I often imagine being able to see the photographer standing behind the camera, or perhaps crouching or running with it.”

Running Able Behinds Imagine Standing Cameras Photographer Narrative

Author:James Welling

“Between 1995 and 2005, the prison population grew by 30 percent, meaning an additional half million criminals were behind bars, rather than lurking in dark alleys with switchblades. You can well imagine liberals' surprise when the crime rate went down as more criminals were put in prison. The New York Times was reduced to running querulous articles with headlines like Number in Prison Grows Despite Crime Reduction and As Crime Rate Drops, the Prison Rate Rises and the Debate Rages.”

Source: Godless: The Church of Liberalism

“If educators were really understanding of that, they'd say, "You know what? Forget about bilingual, we're going to do multilingual education." So children are ready for the new millennium. We're way behind compared to countries in Europe. If we were multilingual, imagine how much you would learn about your own culture, about the sensibilities of what's important in your own culture.”

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Author:Sandra Cisneros

“One can imagine a time when men who still inhabit organic bodies are regarded with pity by those who have passed on to an infinitely richer mode of existence, capable of throwing their consciousness or sphere of attention instantaneously to any point on land, sea, or sky where there is a suitable sensing organ. In adolescence we leave childhood behind; one day there may be a second and more portentous adolescence, when we bid farewell to the flesh.”

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Book:Profiles Of The Future

Source: Profiles Of The Future