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“May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.”

Heart May Given Compassion Imagine My Heart Difficulty Asking Appropriate

Author:Jack Kornfield

“What man can imagine he may one day achieve.”

Men Inspirational May Imagination Imagine Achieve One Day

Book:The Realities of Fiction: A Book About Writing

Source: The Realities of Fiction: A Book About Writing

“As the idea imparted by the term Cataclysm, Catastrophe, or Revolution, is extremely vague, and may comprehend any thing you choose to imagine, it answers for the time very well as an explanation; that is, it stops further inquiry. But it also has had the disadvantage of effectually stopping the advance of science, by involving it in obscurity and confusion.”

Wells May Ideas Science Term Imagination Answers Imagine Revolution Confusion Explanation You Choose Vague Catastrophe Stopping Inquiry Obscurity Disadvantages Involving

Author:George Julius Poulett Scrope

“Global warming ... may be a plaintiff lawyer's dream. And it's interesting, in a perverse way, to imagine how a jury in 2050 might react to some of the recent industry-backed studies minimizing the dangers of global warming. I suspect future jurors will not be amused.”

Way May Dream Might Interesting Study Imagine Danger Industry Lawyer Global Warming Suspects Jury Amused Minimizing Jurors

Author:David Ignatius

“One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement.”

Men May Play Would Be Imagine Glad Imagine That Amusement Violin Trumpets

Book:If I lived my life again

Source: If I lived my life again

“Every man, however hopeless his pretensions may appear, has some project by which he hopes to rise to reputation; some art by which he imagines that the attention of the world will be attracted; some quality, good or bad, which discriminates him from the common herd of mortals, and by which others may be persuaded to love, or compelled to fear him.”

Men World May Art Common Attention Quality Imagine Fame Projects Every Man Reputation Mortals Hopeless Imagine That Compelled Herds Pretension

Author:Samuel Johnson

“The artist who paints the emotions creates an enclosed world... the picture... which, like a book, has the same interest no matter where it happens to be. Such an artist, we may imagine, spends a great deal of time doing nothing but looking, both around him and inside him.”

World May Book Matter Happens Artist Interest Deals Emotion Imagine Paint Doing Nothing

Author:Pierre Bonnard

“I am going to learn to make bread tomorrow. So if you may imagine me with my sleeves rolled up, mixing flour, milk, saleratus, etc., with a deal of grace. I advise you if you dont know how to make the staff of life to learn with dispatch.”

Ifs Knows May Deals Know How Grace Imagine Food Tomorrow Bread Etc Milk Staff Advise Sleeves Mixing Flour

Book:The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson

Source: The Life and Letters of Emily Dickinson

“A common obstruction to a vital intimate relationship is what I call the assumption of clairvoyance. You imagine, perhaps unconsciously, that your partner or friend is somehow magically psychic when it comes to you -\-\ so much so that he or she should unfailingly intuit exactly what you need, even if you don't ask for it. This fantasy may seem romantic, but it can undermine the most promising alliances. To counteract any tendencies you might have to indulge in the assumption of clairvoyance, practice stating your desires aloud.”

“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.”