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“I foresee that man will resign himself each day to more atrocious undertakings; soon there will be no one but warriors and brigands; I give them this counsel: The author of an atrocious undertaking ought to imagine that he has already accomplished it, ought to impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.”

Men Giving Past Imagine Ought Warrior Accomplished Each Day Imagine That Undertakings Irrevocable

Book:Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings

Source: Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings

“Imagine that the gods have a care for everything that lives in the community of life on earth.”

Care Earth Community Imagine Imagine That

Author:Daniel Quinn

“Imagine that someone said or did something cruel to you, but that you did not react in any way whatsoever – you did not become upset, resentful or even ruffled. You simply observed that this person was saying or doing something cruel, as though you were calmly observing the scene in a movie. You simply would not be stressed by what would appear to others to be a highly stressful encounter. Stress and cruelty affect us as profoundly as they do only because we react to them resentfully.”

Way Persons Said Imagine Scene Stress Cruelty Upset Encounters Imagine That Observing Stressed Stressful Resentful

Author:Roy Masters

“It requires a much higher degree of imagination to understand the electromagnetic field than to understand invisible angels. ... I speak of the E and B fields and wave my arms and you may imagine that I can see them ... [but] I cannot really make a picture that is even nearly like the true waves.”

May I Can Speak Imagination Imagine Fields Arms Higher Degrees Angel Wave Invisible Imagine That

Author:Richard P. Feynman

“Imagine that -- a country that's supposed to be a democracy, supposed to be for freedom and all of that kind of stuff when they want to draft you and put you in the army and send you to Saigon to fight for them -- and then you've got to turn around and all night long discuss how you're going to just get a right to register and vote without being murdered. Why, that's the most hypocritical government since the world began!”

World Want Kind Long Country Government Night Turns Fighting Stuff Democracy Imagine Vote Army Supposed To Be Imagine That All Night Register Hypocritical Saigon

Author:Malcolm X

“It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.”

Causes Common Imagine Errors Worthy Be Good Imagine That Stirring Worthy Causes

Book:Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion

“I imagine that as contemporary music goes on changing in the way that I'm changing it what will be done is to more and more completely liberate sounds from abstract ideas about them and more and more exactly to let them be physically uniquely themselves. This means for me: knowing more and more not what I think a sound is but what it actually is in all of its acoustical details and then letting this sound exist, itself, changing in a changing sonorous environment.”

Thinking Way Mean Ideas Done Sound Knowing Environment Imagine Goes On Details Contemporary Abstract Imagine That Contemporary Music Knowing More

Author:John Cage

“I had my yob periods. Nothing violent but certainly loutish. I think it's frustrated intelligence. Imagine that if you were really intelligent and everyone treated you as though you were stupid and no one tried to teach you anything -- the sort of deep subliminal rage that would get going in you. But then once it gets going, you make a strength out of what you know is your weakness, which is that you are undeveloped.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Teach Imagine Stupid Periods Weakness Intelligent Rage Violent Treated Imagine That Frustrated Subliminal

Author:Martin Amis

“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

“There are those who imagine that the unlucky accidents of lifelife's "experiences"are in some way useful to us. I wish I could find out how. I never know one of them to happen twice. They always change off and swap around and catch you on your inexperienced side.”

Knows Way Happens Wish Sides Imagine Experience Accidents Imagine That Unlucky

Book:Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays

Source: Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays

“Never lie to a child about doctors or medicine or anything else; but if you feel, as some people seem to feel, that life without lying is an impossibility, at least don't lie about the amount of pain likely to result from a surgical procedure, or about the taste of some medicine. If you know that something to be done will hurt, say so; if a mixture to be swallowed is unpleasant, say so. If you deceive a child once in such matters, do not imagine that it will trust you again. You do not deserve trust, and you will not get it.”

Source: The House and Home: A Practical Book

“Ultimately, in the Internet, openness has always won. I cannot imagine that the current competitive environment would reverse that.”

Environment Imagine Internet Currents Openness Imagine That Reverse

Author:Eric Schmidt

“I do not believe that anything really worthwhile will come out of the exploration of the slag heap that constitutes the surface of the moon...Nobody should imagine that the enormous financial budget of NASA implies that astronomy is now well supported.”

Should Believe Wells Imagine Moon Financial Surface Astronomy Enormous Budgets Exploration Worthwhile Imagine That Nasa Slag

Author:Fred Hoyle

“The poor yield to the rich, the common people to the upper ten, the servants to their masters, the ignorant to the scholars; but there is nobody who does not imagine that he is really better than others.”

People Doe Poor Common Rich Imagine Masters Ten Ignorant Servant Yield Scholar Imagine That

Book:Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

Source: Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life

“For me, spirituality includes the belief in things larger than ourselves, an appreciation of nature and beauty, a sensitivity to the world, a feeling of shared connection with other living things, a desire to help people less fortunate than ourselves. All of these things can occur with or without God. I do not believe in the existence of God, but I consider myself a spiritual person in the manner I have just described. I call myself a spiritual atheist. I would imagine that many people are spiritual atheists.”

“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.”

Source: The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola

“I don't recall that I have said and I don't think that I really feel that we need a world government. We need governments of the world that work together and collaborate. But, I can't imagine that there would be any likelihood or even that it would be desirable to have a single government elected by the people of the world.”

People Thinking World Needs Feels Said I Can Government Would Be Together Imagine Working Together Imagine That Recalls Desirable Likelihood World Government

Author:David Rockefeller

“In terms of earthly life as you understand it, it is overly optimistic to imagine that eventually all illnesses will be conquered, all relationships be inevitably fulfilling, or to foresee a future in which all people on earth are treated with equality and respect.”

People Earth Term Imagine Illness Treated Optimistic Imagine That Fulfilling

Author:Jane Roberts

“Consider, children ... the pain of touching the tip of your finger to your mother's stove, even for a fraction of a second. That is an experience which most of you have suffered. Now try to imagine that pain, not simply on a fingertip but spread over the whole surface of your body, and not for a mere second, but everlastingly. That, children, is hellfire.”

Trying Children Whole Body Pain Mother Hell Imagine Mere Fingers Spread Surface Your Body Touching Imagine That Fractions Fingertips Stoves

Book:The Rector of Justin

Source: The Rector of Justin

“I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.”

Source: Sacred cows-- and other edibles

“This argument [that life is too improbable to have arisen by chance] comes up repeatedly: its latest manifestation is Hoyle's discussion of the likelihood of a wind blowing through a junkyard assembling a Boeing 707 [sic]. What is wrong with it? Essentially, it is that no biologist imagines that complex structures arise in a single step.”

“It would be naïve to imagine that any analysis of experience is dependent on pattern expressed in language. Any concept, whether or not it forms part of the system of grammatical categories, can be conveyed in any language. If a notion is lacking in a given series, it implies a different configuration and not a lack of expressive power.”

Ifs Different Would Be Form Language Given Imagine Concepts Series Notion Patterns Analysis Dependent Categories Imagine That Lacking Expressive Configuration

Author:Edward Sapir

“And let no government imagine, that, to strip them of the power of defrauding their subjects, is to deprive them of a valuable privilege. A system of swindling can never be long lived, and must infallibly in the end produce much more loss than profit.”

Long Ends Government Loss Imagine Subjects Produce Privilege Profit Valuable Imagine That Swindling

Book:A treatise on political economy

Source: A treatise on political economy

“For a decade Americans have been steeped in the rhetoric of "zero tolerance" and the faith that virtually all problems from drug addiction to lousy teaching can be solved by pouring on the punishment. Even without a Commander in Chief who pledges to rid the world of evildoers, smoke them out of their holes and the like, we would be vulnerable to the temptation to brush aside frustrating complexities and relieve intolerable fear (at least for the moment) by settling on one or more scapegoats to crush. To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.”

“Imagine that for hundreds of years your most formative traumas, your daily suffering and pain, the abuse you live through, the terror you live with, are unspeakable - not the basis of literature. You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.... You learn how to leave your body and create someone else who takes over when you cannot stand it any more. You develop a self who is ingratiating and obsequious and imitative and aggressively passive and silent - you learn, in a word, femininity.”

“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.”

“God looked through eternity past and He saw you and He chose to reach out and redeem you by His own grace. It's hard to imagine that kind of love.”

Kind Hard Past Saws Grace Imagine Eternity Reach Out Imagine That Kinds Of Love

Book:Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard

Source: Always True: God's 5 Promises When Life Is Hard

“The nice men in periwigs who came up with the Fourth Amendment were recklessly naive to imagine that branches of a government, each of whose power is enhanced when the power of the other branches grows, would serve to check one another.”

Men Government Grows Nice Imagine Checks Branches Amendments Fourth Imagine That Naive Fourth Amendment Nice Man

Author:Ilana Mercer

“Some people think that macrobiotic philosophy is no more than the teaching of a diet - the eating of brown rice, carrots, and gomashio (sesame salt), others imagine that it is summed up in the statement, "Don't eat cake and sugar." How far from the truth!”

People Thinking Philosophy Imagine Teaching Eating Statements Diets Brown Cake Sugar Salt Imagine That Rice Carrots

Author:George Ohsawa

World Reason Seems Imagine Position Source Atmosphere Shopping Imagine That Dissatisfaction Interrupted Instability Saturation

Author:Herbert Schiller

“We can not imagine that an Arab population forming more than 80 percent of the Iraqi society will allow the article reading that Iraq is part of the Islamic world instead of mentioning that we are part of the Arab nation, as if they want us to be linked to Iran and not to the Arab nation.”

Ifs World Want Reading Nations Imagine Percent Iraq Population Islamic Iran Articles Imagine That Can Not Linked Want U

Author:Saleh al-Mutlaq

“A maverick may go his own way but he doesn't think that it's the only way or ever claim that it's the best one, except maybe for himself. And don't imagine that this raggle-taggle gypsy is claiming to be free. It's just that some of the necessities to which I am a slave are different from yours.”

Thinking Way May Different Imagine Claims Slave Imagine That Gypsy Maverick

Author:Orson Welles

“It is true that a great deal of the rhetoric of the new atheism is often just the confessional rote of materialist fundamentalism (which, like all fundamentalisms, imagines that in fact it represents the side of reason and truth); but it is also true that the new atheism has sprung up in a garden of contending fundamentalisms.”

Reason Facts Sides Deals Imagine Atheism Garden Imagine That Rhetoric Fundamentalism Sprung Contending Sprung Up

Author:David Bentley

“This is the path of prayer-contemplative prayer, that is, as distinct from simple prayers of supplication and thanksgiving-which is a specific discipline of thought, desire, and action, one that frees the mind from habitual prejudices and appetites, and allows it to dwell in the gratuity and glory of all things. As an old monk on Mount Athos once told me, contemplative prayer is the art of seeing reality as it truly is; and, if one has not yet acquired the ability to see God in all things, one should not imagine that one will be able to see God in himself.”

“Election officials say that in 2016, it may be possible to vote for the president on your smartphone. Can you imagine that? With one swipe you can choose a president and at the same time tell him or her where you want to hook up.”

Want May President Imagine Vote Election Officials Imagine That Hook Smartphones Hook Up

Author:Conan O'Brien

“The Devil's methods of opposition are those of alliance and antagonism, and the only serious one is the first. Let us beware of it. Do not let us imagine that we can take into our fellowship and enlist under one banner men who simply affirm truth about Jesus, unless in their own lives there is an absolute loyalty to the Lord Christ. Antagonism is the creation of force for the kingdom of God. Put a man in prison for Christ's sake, and the earthquake will surely follow, and the work will spread.”

“One of the traditional Tantric methods of mediation is to imagine that you are taking on the suffering of all beings.”

Suffering Compassion Imagine Method Traditional Imagine That Mediation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception.”

Art Book Imagine Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Exception Fishing Imagine That Fly Fishing

Author:G. E. M. Skues

“I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.”

Passion Literature Given Fiction Study Imagine Students Extraordinary Imagine That English Literature Love Passion

Book:Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

Source: Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

“You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.”

People Thinking Hard Humor Funny Faces Can Do Powerful Imagine Having Fun Imagine That Funny Face

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.”

Stills Feelings Light Might Would Be Space Imagine Air Atheism Easier Empty Positive Atheism Resistance Flight Imagine That Dove Empty Space Cleaving

Book:Kant

Source: Kant

“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.”

Way May Facts Moving Behinds Fantasy Imagine Mystery Atheism Positive Atheism Mysterious Spite Imagine That Mysterious Ways

Author:Barbara Smoker

“To imagine that God wants prayers and hymns of praise is to make him out to a sort of oriental potentate; while praying for favours is an attempt to get him to change his allegedly all-wise mind.”

Want Mind Prayer Wise Imagine Atheism Praying Praise Positive Atheism Imagine That Favour Hymns

Author:Barbara Smoker

“I'd be the first one to tell you that I would like to think that I had called timeout before that. I can't imagine that I did not. I can't tell you that I did, and that's my issue.”

Thinking Firsts I Can Issues Imagine Imagine That Tigers Lsu

Author:Les Miles

“You have a visceral, physical response to being in [the real] places, and the sights and sounds and the smells just bring something else out in you. You're not having to fake that or imagine that. It's there. It becomes as much an act of something you bounce off as the other people you're working with.”

People Real Sound Imagine Sight Response Smell Fake Imagine That Bounce Visceral Sight And Sound

Author:Chris Hemsworth

“Of those that spin out trifles and die without a memorial, many flatter themselves with high opinions of their own importance, and imagine that they are every day adding some improvement to human life.”

Humans Dies Opinion Imagine Importance Improvement Human Life Imagine That Memorial Trifles

Book:The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

Source: The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752

“I was OK in school, but I always missed a lot because I was playing so much. But if I'd stuck at it I imagine that I'd be doing something financial or economical. Finance always attracted me, even though maths was always a bit of a love-hate relationship. I would have tried playing football, but I don't think I'd have made it.”

Ifs Thinking Made School Hate Bits Imagine Football Financial Math Stuck Finance Made It Imagine That Love Hate Playing Football Love Hate Relationship Love And Hate Relationship

Author:Matteo Manassero

“There is no idleness, by which we are so easily seduced, as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business, and by making the loiterer imagine that he has something to do which must not be neglected, keeps him in perpetual agitation, and hurries him rapidly from place to place.”

Imagine Appearance Perpetual Imagine That Idleness Neglected Agitation

Book:Idler

Source: Idler

“It never seemed important to me that my photos be published. It's important that I take them. There were periods where I didn't have money, and I would imagine that someone would come to me and say: 'Here is money, you can go do your photography, but you must not show it.' I would have accepted right away. On the other hand, if someone had come to me saying: 'Here is money to do your photography, but after your death it must be destroyed,' I would have refused.”

Ifs Important Shows Hands Imagine Periods Photography Photographer Accepted Destroyed Imagine That

Author:Josef Koudelka

“The miller imagines that the corn grows only to make his mill turn.”

Turns Grows Imagine Imagine That Corn Conceit Mills

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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