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It is a common error to imagine that to be stirring and voluble in a worthy cause is to be good and to do good.

It is difficult to imagine evolution in alien planets operating in any manner other than Darwinian.

It is difficult to imagine a greater imposition than adding genes to future generations that changes the nature of future people.

It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment.

It is difficult for me to imagine what "personal liberty" the unemployed can have who go hungry and cannot find utilization of their labor.

It is folly to imagine that the aggressive types, whether individuals or nations, can be bought off ... since the payment of danegeld stimulates a demand for more danegeld. But they can be curbed. Their very belief in force makes them more susceptible to the deterrent effect of a formidable opposing force.

It is hard to imagine Thomas Kinkade as anything less than supremely self-assured.

It is hard for me to imagine retiring at 65 and spending the next quarter century not working. I expect to be working, doing something productive and fulfilling.

It is hard to imagine a civilization without onions.

It is impossible to imagine existence void of any intelligence.

It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free.

It is misleading to imagine that we are developed in spite of our circumstances, for we are developed because of them. It is mastery in circumstances that is needed, not mastery over them.

It is my hope that I could be not just a Prime Minister, but a Prime Minister for Aboriginal affairs, the first I imagine that we've ever had.

It is my practice to try to understand how valuable something is by trying to imagine myself without it.

It is not often that the real world conjures worse than what we can imagine.

It is not pretended that, at the present stage of its development, economic science is able to provide an organon even remotely approaching to what it imagines for itself as its ideal.

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

It is of great advantage that man should know his station, and not imagine that the whole universe exists only for him.

It is possible to imagine a society flushed with such a sense of power that it could afford to let its offenders go unpunished.

...it is sensible to begin by asking the beginning questions, why imagine power in the first place, and what is the relationship between one's motive for imagining power and the image one ends up with.

It is true that I had wanted to die , but that is peculiarly different from regretting having been born. Overwhelmingly, I was enormously glad to have been born, grateful for life, and I couldn’t imagine not wanting to pass on life to someone else.

I truly cannot imagine men with men, women with women, doing what they were not physically created to do, without abnormal stress and misbehavior.

It is very easy for me to imagine in 200 years, people looking back at chemotherapy as proof that people of the 20th century were insane and just morons.

It is very difficult to imagine that you can actually get rid of a dictatorship that has been there for 60 years only in 18 days.

It made a big difference to my match stamina. I couldn't imagine I would have been so energetic during the match - it really gave me a welcomed extra boost!

I truly find such a sense of peace and calm when I'm working, and it's an inner peace that I've never been ever to achieve, doing anything else. It's where I feel most myself. I can access my power and strength, as an artist, and I can't imagine not doing it. I love it!

I trust you have seen the ocean. If you have, then you have witnessed the divine. How barren the ground is in comparison! If I could count the hours I have spent staring out at it! And yet those hours never feel lost. I cannot imagine how else I could refill them were I given a second chance.

I try to imagine someone saying to Shakespeare, 'Relax!

I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in their head.

It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?

It's almost impossible to imagine bullfighting abolished from Spain entirely. Values do change, though.

It's difficult for me to imagine any scene differently because I've read the book so many times. The book, as a whole, seems like a document that wouldn't withstand any changes at this point. Or perhaps I simply can't imagine having to revise it again.

It's a pity one can't imagine what one can't compare to anything. Genius is an African who dreams up snow.

It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we should not imagine that you Americans are all undercover assassins.

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

It's cinematographic to smoke. Imagine Lauren Bacall without a cigarette.

It's easy to imagine ways the future can be ugly and depressing. It's harder, but more worthwhile, to imagine plausible ways we can make it better.

It's hard for me to imagine why a church that has younger members wouldn't have a blog component.

It’s hard for me to imagine a life without playing cricket because it’s all I have ever done since I was 11 years old.

It's hard to imagine a more potent sign of a weak, declining empire than having one's national 'credibility' depend upon periodically bombing other countries.

It's hard to imagine a place like that really exists. People have been judging me my whole life.

It’s hard to imagine that our love is a story with an end.

It's hard to imagine there's a place for great writing inside a multinational conglomerate.

It's harder for men to imagine themselves as the girl in the movies than it is for me to imagine myself as Daniel Craig bringing down the building.

It's hard to imagine a party that is not corrupted by hatred.

It's hard to imagine her ever having felt lost, but it's impossible to know the people your parents were before they were your parents.

It’s hard to imagine the revenue from selling the prints will cover the cost of lost goodwill.

It's hard to imagine the whole punk movement without The Velvet Underground. I toured with them when they did their reunion tour, and no one sounds like that; they are a very unique-sounding band. They have a lot of noise, they have a viola, they have a drummer that's standing up, certainly they have influenced my guitar playing, but hopefully after 12 records you start to sound like yourself.

It's impossible to imagine our planet without coral.

It’s me,” said Jace. “Watching me play Scrabble is enough to make most women swoon. Imagine if I actually put in some effort.