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• The inhabitants of Coventry, for example, continued to imagine that their sufferings were due to the innate villainy of Adolf Hitler without a suspicion that a decision, splendid or otherwise, of the British War Cabinet, was the decisive factor in the case.

  Martin Caidin

  War, Decision, Suffering

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• Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is effected, as it sometimes is, they see no need for any other.

  George Orwell

  Political, Revolution, Needs

  'Inside the Whale' (1940) 'Charles Dickens'

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• I imagine that whenever the mind perceives a mathematical idea, it makes contact with Plato's world of mathematical concepts... When mathematicians communicate, this is made possible by each one having a direct route to truth, the consciousness of each being in a position to perceive mathematical truths directly, through the process of 'seeing'.

  Roger Penrose

  Plato, Ideas, Mind

  Roger Penrose (1999). “The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics”, p.554, OUP Oxford

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• Once in 1979, [Zbigniew] Brzezinski gave an important slogan: "Bye-bye PLO." After two months, I was in Tehran saying to him: "Bye-bye Brzezinski." Who can imagine that America will lose one of its strongest bases?

  Yasser Arafat

  Two, Bye, America

  Source: www.nybooks.com

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• The most difficult thing is the organization of people and the expression of your intentions. It's very easy to have a picture in your head and to imagine that you've told everybody about what you need.

  Neil Jordan

  Expression, Organization, People

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• It's hard for me to imagine that some people in the CIA who had firsthand knowledge would be unable to recognize that this would be helpful information for a soldier's death.

  Chris Shays

  People, Soldier, Would Be

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• All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be, are longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well...desire by itself is not wrong. It is life itself, the urge to grow in knowledge and experience. It is choices you make that are wrong. To imagine that some little thing-food, sex, power, fame-will make you happy is to decieve oneself. Only something as vast and deep as your real self can make you truly and lastingly happy.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Sex, Real, Self

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• I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Fiction, Imagine, Terrible

  Siri Hustvedt (2008). “The Sorrows of an American: A Novel”, p.228, Macmillan

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• Imagine! People are not volunteering to go to foreign countries and die the way they used to! Imagine that!

  Michael Badnarik

  Country, People, Volunteer

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• At least once a year, I imagine that I am about to die. Looking back as truthfully as I can at my entire life, I give full attention to the things I wish hadn’t occurred. Recognizing these mistakes honestly but without self-recrimination, I try to rejoice in the innate wisdom that allows me to see so bravely, and I feel compassion for how I so frequently messed up. Then I can go forward. The future is wide open, and what I do with it is up to me.

  Pema Chodron

  Mistake, Compassion, Self

  Pema Chodron (2007). “No Time to Lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva”, p.38, Shambhala Publications

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• I'm bored by repeating myself, and I would imagine that an audience would be bored by me repeating myself.

  John C. Reilly

  Bored, Would Be, Imagine

  "Interview: John C. Reilly (Talladega Nights)". Interview with Devin Faraci, trouble.city. August 2, 2006.

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• I'll (Phil Rizzuto) never forget September 6, 1950. I got a letter threatening me, Hank Bauer, Yogi Berra and Johnny Mize. It said if I showed up in uniform against the Red Sox I'd be shot. I turned the letter over to the FBI and told my manager Casey Stengel about it. You know what Casey did? He gave me a different uniform and gave mine to Billy Martin. Can you imagine that! Guess Casey thought it'd be better if Billy got shot.

  Phil Rizzuto

  Different, Letters, Red

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• The only trouble is that in the spiritual life there are no tricks and no shortcuts. Those who imagine that they can discover spiritual gimmicks and put them to work for themselves usually ignore God's will and his grace.

  Thomas Merton

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Grace

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• I came with the notion of perhaps saying something for monks and to monks of all religions because I am supposed to be a monk. ... My dear brothers, WE ARE ALREADY ONE. BUT WE IMAGINE THAT WE ARE NOT. And what we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be is what we are

  Thomas Merton

  Brother, Unity, Imagine

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• Imagine that we are sitting in an ordinary room. Suddenly we are told that there is a corpse behind the door. In an instant the room we are sitting in is completely altered; everything in it has taken on another look; the light, the atmosphere have changed, though they are physically the same. This is because we have changed and the objects are as we conceive them. That is the effect I want to get in my film.

  Carl Theodor Dreyer

  Taken, Light, Doors

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• The greatest danger that besets us does not come from believers or atheists; it comes from those who, under the guise of religion, science or reason, imagine that we can free ourselves from the limitations of human nature and perfect the human species.

  Chris Hedges

  Atheist, Perfect, Doe

  "On Secular Fundamentalism" by Chris Hedges, www.truthdig.com. April 7, 2008.

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• "War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He ought," says this great political doctor, "to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans." A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature.

  Edmund Burke

  Peace, War, Military

  "A Vindication of Natural Society". Book by Edmund Burke, 1756.

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• If I am not elected, I imagine that I will ask Harvard to let me back.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Imagine, Harvard, Let Me

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• It is one of the great weaknesses of reasonable men and women that they imagine that projects which fly in the face of commonsense are not serious or being seriously undertaken.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Men, Weakness, Faces

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• I cannot imagine that I could strive for something if I did not carry hope in me.

  Vaclav Havel

  Hopeful, Imagine, Strive

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• Keep the remembrance of your real nature alive, even while working, and avoid haste which causes you to forget. Be deliberate. Practice meditation to still the mind and cause it to become aware of its true relationship to the Self which supports it. Do not imagine that it is you who are doing the work. Think that is the underlying current which is doing it. Identify yourself with the current.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Real, Inspiration, Thinking

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• It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can't imagine that they will ever be gone.

  Henry Rollins

  People, Gone, Kind

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• God must act and pour himself into you the moment he finds you ready. Don't imagine that God can be compared to an earthly carpenter, who acts or doesn't act, as he wishes; who can will to do something or leave it undone, according to his pleasure. It is not that way with God: where and when God finds you ready, he must act and overflow into you, just as when the air is clear and pure, the sun must overflow into it and cannot refrain from doing that.

  Meister Eckhart

  Air, Wish, Way

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• To imagine that it is possible to perform great military deeds without fighting is just empty dreams.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Dream, Military, Fighting

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• No one imagines that a law professing to tax will be permitted to destroy.

  John Marshall

  Law, Imagine, Taxes

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