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I and imagine
`` That I can't answer, for I can't imagine something like this happening to me.
Prior to 1954 I imagine that a majority of Southerners would have voted against the Confederacy.
Says he, `` I may never imagine that in the struggle between personal and supra-personal responsibility it is possible to make a compromise between the ethical and the purposive in the shape of a relative ethic ; ;
In fact I cannot imagine myself condemning a man to the noose or the electric chair if I had to take, as an individual, the responsibility for his death.
`` I imagine you're always battling in school ''.
`` I imagine the old girl hasn't missed us much '', Mark added, his eyes on the road.
I cannot imagine a single scene that isn't done in a far naughtier manner on TV every week.
`` I can imagine '', she said.
`` What did I imagine ''??
`` Somehow I imagine that as you grew up you were alone a lot.
`` I can imagine ''!!
I couldn't imagine her without it.
But on meeting Mackenzie, Dufferin revised his opinions: " However narrow and inexperienced Mackenzie may be, I imagine he is a thoroughly upright, well-principled, and well-meaning man.
Whatever my mistakes or failings, I could not imagine that I should find myself at the center of such a political campaign as has been worked up round my name in the West.
In contrast, Huston Smith, scholar of world religions, said of the Mitchell version, " This translation comes as close to being definitive for our time as any I can imagine.
The expedition was successful, and Jenner wrote, " I don ’ t imagine the annals of history furnish an example of philanthropy so noble, so extensive as this.
It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine "-" I was within a hair's breadth of the last opportunity for pronouncement, and I found with humiliation that probably I would have nothing to say.
I could scarcely imagine myself to be in the woods of Indiana, on the borders of the Wabash, while pacing the long resounding aisles, and surveying the stately colonnades of this church.
" I can imagine only 60 percent of the space in this building ," he said during the early stages.
I would imagine we'll probably get there some time in the next year and start working on that.

I and there
`` I mean, we don't have any way to get there and we can't expect you to quit work just to take us to town ''.
There's someone there I have to see.
For weeks I wandered about this neighborhood of warehouses and garages, truck terminals and taxi repair shops, gasoline pumps and longshoremen's lunch counters, yet never did I cease to feel myself a stranger there.
`` I can't leave him there.
`` Might get there faster walkin' '', Lord drawled, `` seein' as how I got a busted front spring.
But there's one thing I never seen or heard of, one thing I just don't think there is, and that's a sportin' way o' killin' a man ''!!
I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.
Just as I got to my knees, there was again the sound of the fence stretching, and I had time only to start taking my kneeling posture seriously.
I had come to New Orleans two years earlier after graduating college, partly because I loved the city and partly because there was quite a noted art colony there.
Of course, males play a role there, but believe me when I say you wouldn't enjoy yourself one bit on Eromonga.
I saw a dozen or so other outriggers moored there.
`` I got Margaret Rider in one of them old box cars down there by the quarry ''.
Besides I heard her old uncle that stays there has been doin' it ''.
I suspect that there are far more unreconstructed ones than the North likes to believe.
I consider it the center of the world and make it a point to be there once a year ''.
I am certainly not adequately trained to describe or enlarge on human fears, but there are certain features of the fears dispelled by scientific explanations that stand out quite clearly.
`` What I am saying does not mean that there will henceforth be no form in art.

I and was
`` That was a terrible thing to do '', I said to Oso.
`` But that was war '', I said.
Still, I was disgusted with myself for agreeing with Montero's methods.
In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.
Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.
Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.
Such was my state of mind that I did not question the possibility of this ; ;
under the circumstances I was only too willing to confess all.
I was nearly thirty at the time.
It was dark and, I sensed, very large ; ;
Sometimes I was aware of people moving about in the darkness.
This impressed me, until I realized how limited was his sphere of influence.
I felt certain he was really a spineless little man.
Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.
In the mornings, I was informed, fluorescent tubes, similar to the one above the counter, illuminated the entire hall.
I was shown, instead, a batch of white tickets of the sort handed out, he told me, every morning.
Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
I felt certain it was self-appointed.
I decided to see no more of the clerk until the processing of my papers was completed.
I was constantly searching for clues around the neighborhood of the hall.

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