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“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” — Henry Louis Mencken
“Religious superstition consists in the belief that the sacrifices, often of human lives, made to the imaginary being are essential, and that men may and should be brought to that state of mind by all methods, not excluding violence.”
— Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
“Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.” — John Ruskin
“The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don’t acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.” — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
“As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.” — Karl Marx
“Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren’t. But you can’t tell the difference when you have no real information. Fear can create even more imaginary obstacles than ignorance can. That’s why the smallest step away from speculation and into reality can be an amazing relief.” — Barbara Sher
“You’re basically killing each other to see who’s got the better imaginary friend” — Richard Jeni
“Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him.” –Paula Abdul
“An imaginary friend is often what the child needs it to be.” — Barbara Goldstein
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