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• We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not know, or so much love, what we do love. I imagine the fish out of water is the only fish to have an inkling of water.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dark, Water, Age

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Science, Years, Progress

  "Scientists and writers pay tribute to Arthur C Clarke" by Sarah Knapton, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2008.

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• Imagine all human beings swept off the face of the earth, excepting one man. Imagine this man in some vast city, New York or London. Imagine him on the third or fourth day of his solitude sitting in a house and hearing a ring at the door-bell!

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  New York, Men, Doors

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1970). “The Works of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Ponkapog papers. A sea turn, and other matters”

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• Man's rise or fall, success or failure, happiness or unhappiness depends on his attitude ... a man's attitude will create the situation he imagines.

  James Lane Allen

  Success, Attitude, Fall

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• It often happens that the universal belief of one age of mankind — a belief from which no one was, nor without an extraordinary effort of genius and courage, could at that time be free — becomes to a subsequent age so palpable an absurdity, that the only difficulty then is to imagine how such a thing can ever have appeared credible.

  John Stuart Mill

  Ideas, Effort, Age

  "Collected Works: Principles of political economy".

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• We imagine things — that we wouldn't be able to survive, but in fact, we do survive. ... We have no choice, so we do it.

  Joan Didion

  Choices, Able, Facts

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• I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act

  Jurgen Habermas

  Political, September 11, Crime

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• It is now easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.

  Fredric Jameson

  Political, World, Easier

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• I have gone through the most terrible affair that could possibly happen; only imagine, my shadow has gone mad; I suppose such a poor, shallow brain, could not bear much; he fancies that he has become a real man, and that I am his shadow.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Real, Men, Mad

  Hans Christian Andersen (1867). “Hans Andersen's fairy tales, a new tr. by mrs. Paull”, p.560

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• I get a great laugh from artists who ridicule the critics as parasites and artists manqués — sucha horrible joke. I can’t imagine a more perfect art form, a moreperfect career than criticism. I can’t imagine anything more valuableto do.

  Manny Farber

  Art, Careers, Perfect

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• Why do we want to have alternate worlds? It's a way of making progress. You have to imagine something before you do it.

  Joan Aiken

  Progress, World, Want

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• He used both hands when he made the bear. Imagine a bear proceeding from the hands of God.

  N. Scott Momaday

  Hands, Bears, Used

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• Most of my fans are too sensitive. I’m a cruel and cold and hard person. I’ve been abused in every way you can imagine. Save your tears. I lost my sensitivity. You embarrass me when you cry.

  Mike Tyson

  Boxing, Tears, Way

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• He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Thinking, Doe, Egotism

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• Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Time, Thinking, Complexes

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• I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of view.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Views, Years, People

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, p.97, Vintage

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• It has been said that man can create anything which he can imagine.

  Napoleon Hill

  Men, Said, Has Beens

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, James Breckenridge Jones, Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and Grow Rich, Updated and Complete - With If You Can Count to Four...”, p.85, Lulu.com

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• Even the favorite reviews, the audience response is the movie is too slow, deliberately slow. But for the Chinese audience, the biggest complaint is it happens too quick. I think the historical background that build into our genes is different. American people has never been occupied. The deep sadness and sentimentality, the cultural background that relates to melodrama that we relate to and grow up with, the propaganda, I didn't imagine the difference is so big. It's a very interesting cultural phenomenon.

  Ang Lee

  Growing Up, Sadness, Thinking

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• Can you imagine what Bush would say if someone like Hugo Chavez asked him for a little piece of land to install a military base, and he only wanted to plant a Venezuelan flag there?

  Jose Saramago

  Military, Land, Flags

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• A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what it is to be.  It allows us to have the life we are denied because we are too busy living.  Even more paradoxically, poetry permits us to live in ourselves as if we were just out of reach of ourselves.

  Mark Strand

  Busy, Permit, Made

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• Your vision is not limited by what your eye can see, but by what your mind can imagine.

  Ellison Onizuka

  Eye, Deep Thought, Mind

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• You have to dream. We all have to dream. Dreaming is OK. Imagine me teaching from space, all over the world, touching so many peoples lives. Thats a teachers dream! I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries. Imagine a history teacher making history!

  Christa McAuliffe

  Dream, Teacher, Teaching

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• Imagine a history teacher making history.

  Christa McAuliffe

  Teacher, Making History, Global Village

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• I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.

  Terry Brooks

  Book, Healing, Breathing

  Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.46, Del Rey

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• No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Advice, Opinion

  Samuel Johnson (1756). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.82

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