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• My best way of making someone admit to something's wrongness is to have them imagine that thing done to them. Suddenly then it all becomes clear.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Life, Done, Way

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• Politicians live in little worlds of their own and imagine these are the universe.

  Michael Foot

  World, Littles, Politician

  "Another heart and other pulses: the alternative to the Thatcher society".

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• No surgical tweaks. No Botox either. I think it is terrible, these girls in their late 20s injecting their faces and lips. One told me, If I kill my muscles now, I'll never get wrinkles. Can you imagine?

  Salma Hayek

  Girl, Thinking, Wrinkles

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• Imagine living your life without being afraid to take a risk and to explore life.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Fear, Live Your Life, Risk

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• The Thanksgiving tradition is, we gorge. Hey, what about at Thanksgiving we simply consume a considerable measure? However we do that consistently! Goodness. Imagine a scenario where we consume a ton with individuals who pester the heck out of us.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Thanksgiving, Gorges, Hey

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• No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting with expectation, and hushed with attention, easily terrifies himself with the dread of disappointing them, and strains his imagination in pursuit of something that may vindicate the veracity of fame, and show that his reputation was not gained by chance.

  Samuel Johnson

  Imagination, Expectations, Arrogance

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.275

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• There have been the most terrible, shocking events taking place in the United States of America within the last hour or so... I am afraid we can only imagine the terror and the carnage there and the many, many innocent people who will have lost their lives... It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent to the sanctity of human life and we, the democracies of this world, are going to have to come together to fight it together and eradicate this evil completely from our world.

  Tony Blair

  Couple, Fighting, Our World

  Tony Blair's speech to the Trades Union Congress, September 11, 2001.

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• I'll try to be careful, but I know I'm not immune, cause I just can't imagine how I'd ever come to harm with this feeling that I'm feeling as I'm drowning in your arms.

  Beth Nielsen Chapman

  Fall, Feelings, Trying

  Song: Dance With Me Slow, Album: You Hold the Key

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• It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions.

  Julia Child

  Civilization, Kitchen, Onions

  Julia Child “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”, Рипол Классик

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• Their military training will ensure success in war, but they must maintain unity by not allowing the state to grow to large, and by ensuring that the measures for promotion and demotion from one class to another are carried out. Above all they must maintain the educational system unchanged; for on education everything else depends, and it is an illusion to imagine that mere legislation without it can effect anything of consequence.

  Plato

  Military, War, Educational

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• The analogy I like is this imagine being able to see the world but you are deaf, and then suddenly someone gives you the ability to hear things as well - you get an extra dimension of perception.

  Albert Einstein

  Giving, Perception, World

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• I think becoming an actor because it's a ridiculously insecure profession to go into. I feel very comfortable but very lucky. I think any time that you imagine that it's plain sailing for hereon in, then you're kidding yourself.

  Hugh Dancy

  Inspirational, Funny, Insecure

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• The military mind always imagines that the next war will be on the same lines as the last. That has never been the case and never will be. One of the great factors on the next war will be aircraft obviously. The potentialities of aircraft attack on a large scale are almost incalculable.

  Ferdinand Foch

  Military, War, Mind

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• There are lives I can imagine without children but none of them have the same laughter & noise.

  Brian Andreas

  Laughter, Children, Noise

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• Domestic violence affects many young people, whether in their relationships with each other or if they have grown up with violence in their homes. From playing Ste on Hollyoaks I can imagine how frightening it would be to have him as a boyfriend. Violence and bullying in relationships is always unacceptable. Everyone should Expect Respect in all of their relationships, and not only expect to be respected but to give respect to others as well.

  Kieron Richardson

  Bullying, Home, People

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• We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.

  Jules Verne

  Eye, Black, Able

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea / Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)”, p.32, Jules Verne

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• Tragedies do happen. We can discover the reason, blame others, imagine how different our lives would be had they not occurred. But none of that is important: they did occur, and so be it. From there onward we must put aside the fear that they awoke in us and begin to rebuild

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Moving On, Encouraging

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 02, 2011

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• Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Art, Inspiration

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• I'm working full-time on my job and part time on my fortune.  But it won't be long before I'm working full-time on my fortune. . . can you imagine what my life will look like?

  Jim Rohn

  Jobs, Long, Looks

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• I don’t believe in God as you imagine Him to be, but I believe in many things that you could never even dream of.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Believe, I Believe

  "Aleph". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2011.

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• Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement. Only if poets and writers set themselves tasks that no one else dares imagine will literature continue to have a function.

  Italo Calvino

  Goal, Achievement, Tasks

  Italo Calvino (1988). “Six Memos for the Next Millennium”, p.112, Harvard University Press

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• I have written on numerous occasions that there is no distinction in the American Muslim community between peaceful Muslims and jihadists. While Americans prefer to imagine that the vast majority of American Muslims are civic-minded patriots who accept wholeheartedly the parameters of American pluralism, this proposition has actually never been proven.

  Robert Spencer

  Community, Peaceful, Majority

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• There is never any end... There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we've discovered in its pure state.

  John Coltrane

  Feelings, Sound, Needs

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• The lack of insight to reality, life and history as well as into God's ways, or sunan in His creation, some people will continue to seek or demand the impossible. They will imagine what does not or cannot happen, misunderstand occurrences and events, and interpret them on the basis of cherished illusions which in no way reflect God's sunan or the essence of Islamic law.

  Yusuf al-Qaradawi

  Islamic, Reality, Law

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• Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives.

  Tony Judt

  People, Inability, Alternatives

  Tony Judt (2010). “The Memory Chalet”, p.96, Penguin

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