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• The statement, "The debt problem has become so extreme that we have no choice but to cut social spending" is presented as an objective assessment of our situation. But can you imagine a media commentator making the following assertion? "The debt problem has become so extreme that we have no choice but to raise taxes on the rich."

  Linda McQuaig

  Cutting, Assessment, Media

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• I have never in my life encountered a religion as oppressive, cold, and stiff as Progressivism. I've never known a faith more eager to burn heretics at the stake. Even a fundamentalist Iranian Muslim would flinch if he came face to face with a western liberal's rigid dogmatism. I imagine that even a Saudi Arabian Islamic cleric would take one look at how American left wingers react when anyone deviates ever so slightly from their established orthodoxy, and say to himself, 'man, these people REALLY need to chill.

  Matt Walsh

  Islamic, Men, People

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• I had discovered a terrible vulnerability I myself which I think of not as cowardliness but as an ability to imagine too much.

  William Kittredge

  Fear, Thinking, Too Much

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• Christianity teaches that, contra fatalism, suffering is overwhelming; contra Buddhism, suffering is real; contra karma, suffering is often unfair; but contra secularism, suffering is meaningful. There is a purpose to it, and if faced rightly, it can drive us like a nail deep into the love of God and into more stability and spiritual power than you can imagine.

  Timothy Keller

  Karma, God, Meaningful

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.29, Penguin

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• Imagine Jon Stewart if he gave a damn. He's like Howard Zinn after 12 beers.

  David Swanson

  Beer, Damn, Ifs

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• I can imagine [the government] trying to tell Steven Spielberg 'We need 50 different cuts of your movie for each state.' It will screw us up in a real way.

  John Riccitiello

  Real, Cutting, Government

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• Storytelling strengthens the imagination. To imagine is to envision, to see with the inward eye. This ability to imagine is the basis of all creativity. Creativity is being able to see beyond what is readily apparent. It is seeing a new answer to an old problem.

  Carol Birch

  Creativity, Eye, Imagination

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• Adversity is not a dead end but a detour to a better outcome than you can imagine!

  Jon Gordon

  Adversity, Stay Positive, Detours

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• Imagine that every person in the world is enlightened but you. They are all your teachers, each doing just the right things to help you learn perfect patience, perfect wisdom, perfect compassion.

  Gautama Buddha

  Spiritual, Teacher, Compassion

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• You're not as smart as you think you are, but you've got more potential than you could possibly imagine. The secret from the one to other is humility.

  Michael Hyatt

  Smart, Humility, Thinking

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• ...trying to predict whether global warming will moderate the next ice age is not only impossible but irrelevant. It doesn't help us get through the next few centuries. And one can only imagine our future, shivering, ice age descendants cursing us for leaving them no fossil fuel to create a global warming "greenhouse" effect when one is really needed.

  John Harte

  Ice, Leaving, Age

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• It seems an insult to nature and to the Creator to imagine that pregnancy was ever intended to be a sickness.

  Eliza Bisbee Duffey

  Pregnancy, Insult, Sickness

  Eliza Bisbee Duffey (1873). “What Women Should Know: A Woman's Book about Women, Containing Practical Information for Wives and Mothers”, p.165

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• Prosperity has this property, it puffs up narrow Souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and look down upon the World with Contempt; but a truly noble and resolved Spirit appears greatest in Distress, and then becomes more bright and conspicuous.

  Plutarch

  Soul, Looks, Noble

  "Plutarch's Lives in Eight Volumes".

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• I'll show up at every classroom open house and teacher conference,' she said, now in a voice that was almost frightening in its intensity. 'I'll bake brownies. My child will have new clothes. Her shoes will fit. She'll get her shots, and she'll get her braces. We'll start a college fund next week. I'll tell her I love her every damn day.' If that wasn't a great plan for being a good mother, I couldn't imagine what a better one could be

  Charlaine Harris

  Mother, Teacher, Children

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Dead and Gone: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.67, Penguin

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• When we think of design, we usually imagine things that are chosen because they are designed. Vases or comic books or architecture... It turns out, though, that most of what we make or design is actually aimed at a public that is there for something else. The design is important, but the design is not the point. Call it "public design"... Public design is for individuals who have to fill out our tax form, interact with our website or check into our hotel room despite the way it's designed, not because of it.

  Seth Godin

  Book, Thinking, Design

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• When designing an interface, imagine that your program is all that stands between the user and hot, sweaty, tangled-bedsheets-fingertips-digging-into-the-back sex.

  Randall Munroe

  Sex, Tangled, Design

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• Ooh! Jesus Christ had dreads, so shake 'em.
  I ain't got none, but I'm planning on growing some.
  Imagine all the Hebrews going dumb...
  Dancing on top of chariots and turning tight ones.

  E-40

  Jesus, Rap, Dancing

  Song: Tell Me When To Go, Album: My Ghetto Report Card, 2006

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• Think, just blink and I made...a million rhymes.
  Just imagine if you blinked...a million times.
  Damn, I'd be paid...I got it made.

  Special Ed

  Rap, Thinking, Hip Hop

  Song: I Got It Made, Album: Youngest in Charge

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• This is a great country and requires a good deal of all of us, so I can imagine nothing more important than for all of you to continue to work in public affairs and be interested in them, not only to bring up a family, but also give part of your time to your community, your state, and your country.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Giving, Community

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.621, Best Books on

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• I've long believed that one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation that anyone's child, even from the humblest of families, could grow up to own a business or a corporation. Thomas Jefferson dreamed of a land of small farmers, of shopowners, and merchants. Abraham Lincoln signed into law the Homestead Act that ensured that the great western prairies of America would be the realm of independent, propertyowning citizens-a mightier guarantee of freedom is difficult to imagine.

  Ronald Reagan

  Children, Growing Up, Independent

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• The pictures we saw before we got down here didn't even touch the reality of what it is like being here. We can be right on the beach with all the devastation and still not be able to imagine what it was like when the wall of water actually came up.

  Connie Sellecca

  Beach, Wall, Reality

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• If some people can imagine that a person they love is alive in another world, why can't I imagine Maurice is alive in this one An artist is a person who uses art to run away from reality. It's not wrong-it's survival. There's nothing wrong with me creating a world in which Maurice is alive.

  Robin Gibb

  Running, Art, Reality

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• Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.

  John Cage

  Music, Practice, Singing

  John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.28, Wesleyan University Press

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• I feel like it's really kind of a sit-down album, much in the same way I imagine Billie Holiday or someone sitting down in the studio and singing.

  Lucinda Williams

  Holiday, Singing, Sitting Down

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• Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire.

  Maggie Gallagher

  Happiness, Eye, Romantic Love

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