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“What solidarity we do find exists despite the society, against all its realities, as an unending struggle between the innate decency of man and the innate indecency of the society. Can we imagine how men would behave if this decency could find full release, if society earned the respect, even the love of the individual?”

Ifs Men Reality Individual Struggle Imagine Activism Despite Release Behave Solidarity Innate Decency Unending

Book:The Murray Bookchin Reader

Source: The Murray Bookchin Reader

“Does it seem to you impossible to imagine anything more inextricable than the social contract, when you think of the frightful number of relations that it must regulate -- something like squaring the circle, or finding perpetual motion? That is the reason why, wearied of the struggle, you fall back on absolutism and force.”

Source: General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century

“What writers do is they tell their own story constantly through other people's stories. They imagine other people, and those other people are carrying the burden of their struggles, their questions about themselves.”

People Writing Stories Struggle Imagine Burden

Author:Tobias Wolff

“a struggle with shyness is in every actor more than anyone can imagine.”

Actors Struggle Imagine Shyness

Book:Marilyn Monroe in her own words

Source: Marilyn Monroe in her own words

“Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes rather disastrously, to help him towards it.”

Wells Sometimes Helping Wish Struggle Imagine Well Being Imagine That Disposition Jane Neighbour Busybodies Happy Disposition

Book:Tatter'd Loving

Source: Tatter'd Loving

“We often imagine that the court serves as a sort of neutral umpire controlling the warring political branches. But this is mostly myth. The justices of the Supreme Court are themselves actors in the struggle for power, and when they intervene, they think carefully about how their decisions will affect the courts own legitimacy and authority.”

Thinking Political Actors Justice Decision Struggle Imagine Authority Court Myth Supreme Branches Imagine That Supreme Court Umpires Legitimacy

Author:Noah Feldman

“I can only imagine how difficult it must be for someone facing racial or social prejudices to add autism to their list of struggles. It might be less stressful and at times, easier, to ignore the autism.”

I Can Might Social Difficult Struggle Imagine Easier Prejudice Add Lists Autism Stressful

Author:Liane Holliday Willey

“Faith does help mourners survive their loss, some studies suggest; but I imagine one still struggles.”

Doe Stills Helping Loss Struggle Study Imagine

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“Science probes; it does not prove. Imagine Newton's reaction to an objector of his law of gravity who argued that he could not establish a universal law because he had not observed every falling apple, much less proved the law of gravity - there might, after all, be an apple that levitates! Why should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into a professor of chemistry?”

“If shoppers looked at crooked carrots, misshapen potatoes, slightly dinged apples or too-small peaches and thought, wow, that looks delicious, imagine the benefits for struggling farmers.”

Ifs Looks Struggle Imagine Benefits Apples Farmers Wow Delicious Potatoes Crooked Carrots Peaches Shoppers

Author:Dana Cowin

“Not all Americans are living the American dream by a long shot. Many can't even imagine it. There are impoverished Americans, the poor and the homeless, the hungry and the hopeless, many unable to read and write. There are Americans gone astray, the kids dragged down by drugs, the shattered families, the teenage mothers struggling to cope. Then there are Americans uneasy, troubled and bewildered by the dizzying pace of change.”

“We like to say the Internet is the ultimate library. But libraries are libraries because people come together and fund them through taxes. Libraries actually exist, all over the country, so why is it such a reach to imagine and to someday build a public institution that has a digital aspect to it? Of course the problem is that libraries and other public services are being defunded and are under attack, so there's a bigger progressive struggle this plays into.”

People Country Play Problem Together Courses Struggle Imagine Internet Taxes Aspect Ultimate Bigger Institutions Library Someday Digital Fund Progressive Public Service

Author:Astra Taylor

“I was in the emergency room twice with heart palpitations and panic attacks. As one of my actor friends pointed out: your body doesn't know that you're making art. You think about struggle and challenge and you imagine yourself weighing 302 pounds and being restricted and in despair. Your body doesn't know that that's not the case.”

Thinking Knows Heart Art Body Actors Challenges Rooms Cases Struggle Imagine Despair Your Body Pounds Panic Emergencies Weighing Panic Attacks Emergency Room Palpitation

Author:Lori Lansens