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“There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work of learning or genius, who stand as sentinels in the avenues of fame, and value themselves upon giving Ignorance and Envy the first notice of a prey.”

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

“Throughout his last half-dozen books, for example, Arthur Koestler has been conducting a campaign against his own misunderstanding of Darwinism. He hopes to find some ordering force, constraining evolution to certain directions and overriding the influence of natural selection. [...] Darwinism is not the theory of capricious change that Koestler imagines. Random variation may be the raw material of change, but natural selection builds good design by rejecting most variants while accepting and accumulating the few that improve adaptation to local environments.”

“You cannot imagine a more certain rule or a more powerful suggestion than this, that all the blessings we enjoy are divine deposits which we have received on this condition that we distribute them to others.”

Certain Enjoy Powerful Imagine Conditions Divine Blessing Suggestions Deposits

Book:Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

Source: Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

“It is a truism, of course, that in "democratic" states the populace must be encouraged to imagine that it makes important decisions by voting, and must therefore be controlled by suitable propaganda, which implants ideas to which the voters respond as automatically as trained animals respond to words of command in a circus, thus leaving to the masses only a factitious choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee on the basis of their preference for a certain kind of oratory, a hair-style, or a particular facial expression.”

“Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache. They wanted to produce a perfect society by an endless continuation of something that had only been valuable because it was temporary. The wider course would be to say that there are certain lines along which humanity must move, the grand strategy is mapped out, but detailed prophecy is not our business. Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.”

Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: I have tried to tell the truth, 1943-1944

“Determined will is the beginning of all magical operations. It is because men do not perfectly imagine and believe the result, that the (occult) arts are so uncertain, while they might be perfectly certain.”

Men Believe Art Might Certain Results Imagine Determined Operations Uncertain Not Perfect Occult

Author:Paracelsus

“Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things but yeah I can imagine that you can kind of - I think it depends on one's psychological state. I think there are some people who are on the internet and can fall in love and seem to be in a certain psychological state and other people who are - who couldn't quite do that.”

People Thinking Kind I Can Two Different States Seems Certain Fall Imagine Depends Internet Yeah Falling In Love Psychological Different Things Imagine That Two Different Things

Author:Keanu Reeves

“I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. I actually tend to suspect that in real life, there have always been very strong female characters, but at certain stages of society, they've been asked to cool it.”

“For what I can imagine and feel and think and hear, I can hardly do anything on the acoustic bass. It used to be just pure frustration of imagining so much more and being able to get to a certain level of execution.”

Thinking Feels I Can Able Used Certain Levels Imagine Pure Used To Be Frustration Execution Bass Acoustics

Author:Esperanza Spalding

“[There are, in us] possibilities that take our breath away, and show a world wider than either physics or philistine ethics can imagine. Here is a world in which all is well, in spite of certain forms of death, death of hope, death of strength, death of responsibility, of fear and wrong, death of everything that paganism, naturalism and legalism pin their trust on.”

World Wells Shows Form Certain Responsibility Imagine Possibility Ethics Breaths Physics Spite Pins Paganism Naturalism Legalism Philistines Hope Death

Book:Essays in Religion and Morality

Source: Essays in Religion and Morality

“Mythology is a subjective truth. Every culture imagines life a certain way.”

Way Certain Culture Imagine Mythology Subjective

Author:Devdutt Pattanaik

“For women who do not love us, as for the "disappeared", knowing that we no longer have any hope does not prevent us form continuing to wait. We live on our guard, on watch; women whose son has gone asea on a dangerous exploration imagine at any minute, although it has long been certain that he has perished, that he will enter, miraculously saved, and healthy.”

Love Long Doe Form Death Certain Hope Waiting Watches Gone Knowing Imagine Minutes Dangerous Son Healthy Saved Exploration Continuing

Author:Marcel Proust

“Serious journalists often imagine society is adrift because people don't know certain things. Yet often, they know but just don't care. So the task of serious journalism isn't just to lay out truths. It is to make vital truths compelling to a big audience.”

People Knows Bigs Care Certain Audience Imagine Serious Tasks Lays Don't Care Journalism Journalist Compelling Adrift

Author:Alain de Botton

“People often imagine that being hard to please confers a certain superiority.”

People Hard Certain Imagine Please Imagine That Superiority

Author:Mason Cooley

“Don't believe in imagining things different from what they really are. When the Lord puts us in certain circumstances He doesn't mean for us to imagine them away.”

Believe Mean Different Certain Lord Imagine Circumstances Don't Believe Imagining Things

Book:L. M. MONTGOMERY – Premium Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry & Autobiography (Including Anne Shirley Novels, Chronicles of Avonlea & The Story Girl Series): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, The Golden Road, Kilmeny of the Orchard, The Watchman, Songs of the Sea & many more

Source: L. M. MONTGOMERY – Premium Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry & Autobiography (Including Anne Shirley Novels, Chronicles of Avonlea & The Story Girl Series): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, The Golden Road, Kilmeny of the Orchard, The Watchman, Songs of the Sea & many more

“At a certain age your parents seem like the most embarrassing thing on the whole entire planet, and you want to be nowhere near them. But at the end of the day, you know that you can't literally do anything without them. You love your parents through and through, and they love you probably even more than you could ever imagine until you're a parent yourself.”

Knows Want Ends Whole Seems Age Certain Parent Imagine Love You Planets The End Of The Day Embarrassing

Author:Vanessa Hudgens

“You want something, you dwell upon it consciously for a while, you consciously imagine it coming to the forefront of probabilities, closer to your actuality. Then you drop it like a pebble into Framework 2, forget about it as much as possible for a fortnight, and do this in a certain rhythm.”

Want Certain Forget Imagine Rhythm Probability Framework Want Something Pebbles Actuality Fortnight

Author:Seth

“I do not know that there is a more certain sound than Senator Kennedy. I cannot imagine a more uncertain sound than Senator Kerry.”

Knows Certain Sound Imagine Uncertain Senators

Author:Gordon Smith

“When I'm trying to imagine something, I have a few elements, a few ideas, maybe a certain actor or actress I want to create a certain type of character for, or maybe a certain place.”

Want Trying Ideas Character Certain Actors Imagine Type Elements Actresses

Author:Jim Jarmusch

“You have to be careful what you imagine, because the act of imagining is the act of encouraging yourself to be a certain kind of person.”

Kind Persons Certain Imagination Imagine Careful Be Careful

Author:Margaret Drabble

“Imagine hidden in a simpler exterior a secret receptacle wherein the most precious treasure is deposited - there is a spring which has to be pressed, but the spring is hidden, and the pressure must have a certain strength, so that an accidental pressure would not be sufficient. So likewise is the hope of eternity hidden in man's inmost parts, and affliction is the pressure. When it presses the hidden spring, and strongly enough, then the contents appear in all their glory.”

Men Enough Certain Secret Imagine Spring Glory Eternity Pressure Presses Treasure Sufficient Affliction Exterior

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“I'm not singer; every time I have the urge to sing something, I don't want to do it in front of certain people. I was always that kid afraid of failing, so I just didn't do things. I don't know how to ride a bike, I don't know how to drive. I broke out of shell a bit, and I still am. I think it's more about trying to be the full person I imagine myself to be, regardless of what that means in terms of labels, shade from people, and all of that.”

People Thinking Knows Want Trying Mean Persons Stills Kids Certain Bits Term Know How Imagine Failing Fronts Singers Labels Broke Urges Shade Shells Bike

Author:Le1f

“I didn't die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn't survive certain things... people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst... for many reasons, I shouldn't be here.”

People Reason Young Artist Certain Dies Imagine Worst Dangerous Lucky Imagine That Die Young

Author:Angelina Jolie

“We find it hard to love imperfect things so we imagine God is just as small as we are. If we expect or need things to be perfect or to our liking ( including ourselves) we have created a certain path for a very unhappy life.”

Ifs Needs Hard Certain Perfect Path Imagine Including Unhappy Happy Life Imperfect Unhappy Life Imperfect Things

Author:Richard Rohr

“I'm certain prison is pretty rough as it is but imagine if you were a murderer and a foodie!”

Ifs Certain Imagine Prison Rough Murderer

Author:Greg Behrendt

“Can you imagine if you had a pair of shoes that you could only walk in? That could be kind of limiting under certain circumstances. 'Everybody get outta here! There's a swarm of bees coming!' What? Oh great, I got my walking shoes on today. I guess I better stroll the hell out of here at a moderate pace.”

Ifs Kind Today Certain Walks Hell Imagine Circumstances Walking Shoes Pairs Be Kind Pace Bees Moderates Pair Of Shoes Swarms Walking Shoes

Author:Arj Barker

“I see myself at a certain age as not being able to play the kind of parts that would keep me stimulated, and I can't imagine my life ending professionally the moment that I've got to go to the plastic surgeon and have my face rearranged.”

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Author:Elisabeth Shue

“South Korea is one of the worst countries when it comes to opportunity for women in social activities and employment. To my disgust, in certain communities in Korea, you cannot even imagine how severe sex discrimination is.”

Country Certain Opportunity Social Sex Community Imagine Worst Activity South Discrimination Employment Disgusting Severe Korea South Korea Sex Discrimination

Author:Kim Hyesoon

“I like newspaper stories that are incomplete, that give me room to imagine the rest. It's no good to me reading about something that's all neatly solved and wrapped up. That's why so many of my stories revolve around human psychology, around why someone commits a certain crime, or series of crimes. I don't profess to know the answers but I like to explore the possibilities.”

Knows Giving Humans Stories Certain Reading Answers Rooms Psychology Imagine Crime Possibility Give Me Series Newspapers Commit Incomplete

Author:Peter Robinson

“Imagine someone telling you that by taking a certain drug you could win a single event and be three times richer, famous for life in your country-and it won't hurt anyone. What would you say? There's a wide range of ethics among the riders.”

Country Certain Three Winning Hurt Imagine Events Drug Ethics Wide Range Three Times Riders

Author:Ned Overend

“I've been asked if I'd consider doing Ropes as a straight novel - which is flattering, I suppose - but I can't imagine why I'd want to limit myself that way. There's a certain immediacy we gain from that specific image of Fred being struck by a revelation, of those union workers appearing from the shadows in an alley, of a lonely woman wondering for just a moment if she should make a pass at this young man in her hotel room”

“I could imagine that a character could do almost anything at any time, and that was the freedom of the whole thing. But keeping track of what was plausible for certain characters [was the challenge].”

Whole Character Certain Challenges Imagine Track Imagine That Plausible

Author:Steven Amsterdam

“I like women who are so real that they become as cowardly as certain men, as heroic as others and as sexual and dominating as men can be. And as you can imagine everything I do is [misunderstood].”

Men Real Certain Imagine Heroic Misunderstood Cowardly Dominating

Author:Danielle Arbid

“Imagine Eminem writing a play with complex raps and syllables, and melodies flowing in and out. That's what it was like for me listening to Lin-Manuel Miranda, it was incredible. So it just goes to show that if you put your teaching style in a certain form, that will attract the attention of the people you are trying to teach.”

People Ifs Writing Trying Play Shows Form Certain Attention Teach Imagine Teaching Style Listening Complexes Incredibles Rap Melody Syllables Miranda

Author:Ryan Montgomery

“I had to imagine myself into certain aspects of [Julian Assange] character for our version of events. That involved extrapolating based on clues in his biography, his public persona, photographs, and other accounts of him by people who encountered him during that extraordinary period from 2007 to 2010 that we charted in the film [The Fifth Estate]. So, it involved a lot of research but, sadly, no contact with the man himself.”

“To a certain extent I imagine a play is completely finished in my mind - in my case, at any rate - without my knowing it, before I sit down to write.”

Writing Mind Play Certain Cases Knowing Imagine Rate Finished

Book:Conversations with Edward Albee

Source: Conversations with Edward Albee

“And even with traditional fashion models, where it's their job to be a certain size and a certain proportion, you have to make adjustments once you see your clothes on a real live person. Now imagine doing that with more sizes, more proportions. You really have to play with every piece. So timing is a big part of it. You have to make the time.”

Persons Real Play Bigs Jobs Certain Pieces Imagine Fashion Clothes Models Size Traditional Proportion Timing Adjustment Fashion Model

Author:Christian Siriano