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• You couldn't give up you for them. But what if you wanted them more than you wanted a singular powerful you?

  Kristin Hannah

  Giving Up, Powerful, Wanted

  Kristin Hannah (2014). “The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 1: Firefly Lane, True Colors, Fly Away”, p.144, St. Martin's Griffin

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• So what if man's body evolved from the monkeys? Whether he came from monkeys or fish is unimportant. The important idea is that when the body became "human" enough, the first human soul slipped into it.

  Garth Stein

  Men, Ideas, Soul

  Garth Stein (2009). “The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• Sometimes I see things, I think. Out of the corner of my eye, taunting me, and then it’s gone. And dreams. Such horrible dreams. What if something terrible happened to me? What if I am damaged?" The rain is a cool kiss on my sleeve as I link my arm with hers. "We’re all damaged somehow.

  Libba Bray

  Dream, Rain, Eye

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.335, Delacorte Press

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• I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?

  Rainbow Rowell

  Past, Phones, Ideas

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• God, what if TMZ got hold of the truth about me? What a liar I am, I mean? What kind of role model am I? I make Vanessa Hudgens look like Mother Freaking Teresa. Minus the whole nudity thing. Because I'm not about to take naked photos of myself and send them to my boyfriend.

  Meg Cabot

  Mother, Liars, Mean

  Meg Cabot (2009). “The Princess Diaries, Volume X: Forever Princess”, p.43, Harper Collins

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• What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Laughter, Tears, World

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• What you create doesn’t have to be perfect. So what if the eggs are greasy or the toast is burned? Don’t let fear of failure discourage you.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Eggs, Perfect, Fear Of Failure

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• What if I'm not a superhero. What if I'm the bad guy?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Superhero, Guy

  "'Twilight': Edward The Vampire Sulker And His Beloved: Does This Story Work?". Interview with Linda Holmes, www.npr.org. March 24, 2010.

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• So what if Brian made me feel like fireworks were going off inside me. He could also make me feel like a big fat clod of heartsick dirt. It was like he could take any emotion I had and make it ten times stronger. Which is great when it's happiness but pretty darn awful if it's anything sad.

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock

  Stronger, Awful, Dirt

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• What worries me is, what if this guy is really the one for me and I just haven't had enough therapy yet for me to be comfortable with having found him.

  Carrie Fisher

  Worry, Guy, Had Enough

  Carrie Fisher (2011). “Postcards From the Edge”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• But is it just then that the few and the wealthy should be the rulers? And what if they, in like manner, rob and plunder the people, - is this just?

  Aristotle

  Government, People, Should

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.98, Aristotle

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• What if the genetically superior male is actually a bit of a dickhead?

  Joanna Noelle Levesque

  Males, Bits, Ifs

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• In society, we have these unspoken rules of conduct, these 'shoulds.' Even though we pride ourselves on being a democracy, there are all these ways we say you 'should' behave. But what if you're living your life by the 'shoulds' and you're not really living your life?

  Chris Noth

  Pride, Live Your Life, Democracy

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• I used to wake up and look at our analytics and think, “What if yesterday was the last day anyone used Pinterest?” Like, everyone collectively decided, “We’re done!” Over time I got more confidence.

  Ben Silbermann

  Thinking, Yesterday, Done

  "Ben Silbermann, Pinterest Founder And CEO, Talks Criticism, Fears". Interview with Sara Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 27, 2012.

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• I was always worried with comedy - what if I came to work and I wasn't in a funny mood? That hasn't been an issue.

  Jeremy Sisto

  Issues, Comedy, Worried

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• The Jetsons had them in the 1960s. They were the defining element of 'Knight Rider' in the 1980s: cars that drive themselves. Self-driving cars appear in countless science fiction movies. By Hollywood standards, they are so normal we don't even notice them. But in real life, they still don't exist. What if you could buy one today?

  Sebastian Thrun

  Real, Knights, Self

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• What if we just acted like everything was easy?

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Attitude, Everything Happens For A Reason, Life Is Hard

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• What if most of the technologies readers and cinemagoers are presented with in bestselling books and blockbuster movies are not science fiction, but science fact? What if they currently exist on the planet, but are suppressed from the masses?

  James Morcan

  Book, Technology, Fiction

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• And what if I don't want forgiveness?

  Erica Jong

  Want, Ifs

  Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

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• I’ve always had a soft spot for dreamers – not those who waste their time thinking ‘what if’ but the ones who look to the sky and say ‘why can’t I shoot for the moon?’

  Richard Branson

  Moon, Thinking, Sky

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• What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?

  Cheryl Strayed

  Wild Girl, Ifs, Redeemed

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.228, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Thinking, Blessing, Democratic Socialism

  "'Everybody in the World Except US Citizens Should Be Allowed to Vote and Elect the American Government' - Leading Intellectual Slavoj Žižek". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. March 11, 2008.

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• Naming is nice. It took me days before I was able to speak a name for my first child (what if people did not like it?), and I suspect we gave her a secret, second name as well, to keep her safe.

  Anne Enright

  Children, Nice, Names

  "Author, author: Name that plume" by Anne Enright, www.theguardian.com. August 8, 2008.

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• I’m haunted sometimes by the thought, what if we lived from that place all the time? What if we went there without tragedy striking first? The very thought of who we would be together, and the kinds of collectives decisions we would make...the kind of world we’d create ... makes me want to cry sometimes.

  Marianne Williamson

  Decision, Tragedy, Together

  "Marianne Williamson on Consciousness, Women and Politics". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2012.

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• What if there's no such thing as PMS and this is just my personality?

  Lois Greiman

  Pms, Personality, Ifs

  Lois Greiman (2007). “Unmanned”, p.131, Dell

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