“Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be, the notion seems absurd because we know that college in America is supposed to be about creating citizens and leaders in a diverse nation.” KnowsFirstsSeemsWould BeAmericaNationsPerfectLeaderClassImagineStudentsCollegeCitizensCreatingNotionAbsurdSupposed To BeSatDiverseCompositionFilling Author:Eric Liu
“I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic. And yet I am not so opposed to capitalism that I have failed to see its relative merits. It started out with a noble and high motive, to block the trade monopolies of nobles, but like most human systems it falls victim to the very thing it was revolting against. So today capitalism has outlived its usefulness. It has brought about a system that takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.” KnowsGivingHumansTodayFallClassImagineEconomicTheoryMassCapitalismVictimTradeNobleBlockLuxuryMeritMotiveRelativeMonopolyUsefulnessEconomic Theory Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Every style seems completely appropriate to its epoch. We cannot imagine Madame de Pompadour, or the Empress Josephine, or the early Victorian lady in anything but the clothes she actually wore. Each represents completely the ideals of her time: elegant artificiality or post-Revolutionary morals, or the prudery of the rising middle class.” SeemsMoralClassImagineMiddleFashionStyleClothesIdealsPostsRevolutionaryRisingAppropriateMiddle ClassElegantVictorianEpochArtificialityEmpresses Author:James Laver
“Imagine that leader of all the enemy, in that great plain of Babylon, sitting on a sort of throne of smoking flame, a horrible and terrifying sight. Watch him calling together countless devils, to despatch them into different cities till the whole world is covered, forgetting no province or locality, no class or single individual.” WorldDifferentWholeTogetherIndividualForgetCitiesLeaderEnemyClassWatchesImagineCallingDevilSittingSightWhole WorldHorribleFlamesSmokingCoveredImagine ThatThronesProvincesBabylonLocality Book:The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola Source: The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola
“Bradman is a whole class above any batsman who has ever lived: if Archimedes, Newton and Gauss remain in the Hobbs class, I have to admit the possibility of a class above them, which I find difficult to imagine. They had better be moved from now on into the Bradman class.” IfsWholeDifficultClassImaginePossibilityMovedNewtonBradman Book:A Mathematician's Apology Source: A Mathematician's Apology
“Imagine a ship that is sinking and needs all the available power to run the pumps to drain out the rising waters. The first class passengers refuse to cooperate because they feel hot and want to use the air-conditioner and other electrical appliances. The second-class passengers spend all their time trying to be upgraded to first-class status. The boat sinks and the passengers all drown. That is where the present approach to climate change is leading.” WantNeedsFeelsTryingFirstsUseRunningWaterClassImagineAirApproachHotClimateClimate ChangeRefuseAvailableShipsBoatRisingDrainsPassengersSinkingElectricalPumpsFirst ClassAppliancesClass StatusAir ConditionerElectrical Appliances Author:Matthieu Ricard
“Broadly speaking, nervous women may be divided into two classes - those who are really nervous, and those who imagine themselves to be so.” MayTwoClassImagineNervousDivided Author:Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
“I took lessons for about everything you could imagine - gymnastics to karate to flute and piano. My mom always definitely kept me in some kind of class or program, but for guitar, I kinda gave up on then kinda just taught myself. Same thing with piano. I've never been good with following lessons.” KindClassImagineTaughtMomLessonsProgramGuitarFollowingMy MomPianoGave UpGymnasticsKarateFlutes Author:Elle Varner
“The naive notion that a mother naturally acquires the complex skills of childrearing simply because she has given birth now seemsas absurd to me as enrolling in a nine-month class in composition and imagining that at the end of the course you are now prepared to begin writing War and Peace.” WritingWarEndsMotherCoursesGivenClassImagineMonthsBirthSkillsPreparedComplexesNotionNineAbsurdAcquireCompositionNaiveNine Months Author:Mary Blakely
“If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.” IfsClassImagineMiddleMiseryBritishMiddle ClassMailImagine ThatDaily Mail Author:Simon Hoggart
“Growing up with Tumblr, I can imagine if I was fourteen now being in high school and being on Tumblr all the time in class - that must be such an annoying thing for teachers to have to deal with!” IfsI CanSchoolDealsClassGrowing UpTeacherGrowingImagineHigh SchoolAnnoyingFourteenAnnoying Things Author:Lizzy Plapinger
“Imagine Americans who go to Paris. Why would you want to go where someone's going to disparage you? Why would you go anywhere where they treat you bad? Well, that's how it is for us to go to Mexico. You have to be on your guard, because I think the Mexicans are harder on the Mexicans, the Mexican-Americans. They don't see us as Mexican. I think part of it's a class issue and a color issue. We're more connected to their servants, so what are we doing staying at a nice hotel? There's a kind of shame.” ThinkingWantWellsKindClassIssuesNiceImagineColorTreatsHarderShameConnectedServantParisHotelStayingMexicoMexicanMexican American Author:Sandra Cisneros