dreams
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘dreams’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“A positive attitude can really make dreams come true – it did for me.” -David Bailey
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“Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.” -Samuel Butler
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“I’m not just a boy toy. I have feelings and dreams like anybody else.” -Jon Stewart
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“Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one’s dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.” -Sigmund Freud
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“Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.” -Victor Hugo
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“You know, my dad served in the President’s Cabinet after his time as a governor. He told me he enjoyed being governor a lot more. Now, I understand why. If I do my job well, I can make a difference in people’s lives and I can help our children realize their dreams.” -Mitt Romney
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“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.” -James Allen
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“Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.” -Wilma Rudolph
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“When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.” -Marilyn Manson
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“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” -Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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“In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.” -Douglas MacArthur
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“Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.” -Tim Berners-Lee
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“What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.” -Salvador Dali
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“I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.” -Emily Bronte
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“Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.” -Soren Kierkegaard
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“No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.” -W. Clement Stone
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“If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.” -Booker T. Washington
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“Follow your dreams, believe in yourself and don’t give up.” -Rachel Corrie
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“Never let life impede on your ability to manifest your dreams. Dig deeper into your dreams and deeper into yourself and believe that anything is possible, and make it happen.” -Corin Nemec
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“I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.” -Frida Kahlo
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“I’d say it’s been my biggest problem all my life… it’s money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.” -Walt Disney
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“Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.” -Anais Nin
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“Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.” -Erich Fromm
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“Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.” -Napoleon Hill
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“Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?” -Leonardo da Vinci
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“Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don’t, who will?” -Jon Bon Jovi
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“We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.” -Judy Garland
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“Just what future the Designer of the universe has provided for the souls of men I do not know, I cannot prove. But I find that the whole order of Nature confirms my confidence that, if it is not like our noblest hopes and dreams, it will transcend them.” -Henry Norris Russell
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“Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.” -Gail Devers
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“Don’t give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.” -John Wooden
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“If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.” -Ray Bradbury
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“Computers are magnificent tools for the realization of our dreams, but no machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding.” -Louis Gerstner
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“High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true.” -Robert H. Schuller
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“How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.” -Bram Stoker
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“The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.” -Edgar Allan Poe
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“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.” -Tupac Shakur
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“Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.” -Khalil Gibran
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“A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.” -Pope John XXIII
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“The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.” -Nelson Mandela
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“The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” -Oprah Winfrey
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“I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.” -Bob Dylan
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“It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?” -Jim Carrey
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“I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.” -Bill Gates
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“Keep true to the dreams of your youth.” -Friedrich Schiller
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“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.” -Carl Jung
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“People need dreams, there’s as much nourishment in ’em as food.” -Dorothy Gilman
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“Writers write. Dreamers talk about it.” -Jerry B. Jenkins
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“Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer.” -Jim Bakker
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“We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams.” -Lenny Wilkens
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“Only things the dreamers make live on. They are the eternal conquerors.” -Herbert Kaufman
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“I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?” -John Lennon
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“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.” -Ashley Smith
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“Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.” -Sasha Cohen
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“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.” -Robert Fulghum
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“I don’t use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.” -M. C. Escher
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“I tell people I’m too stupid to know what’s impossible. I have ridiculously large dreams, and half the time they come true.” -Debi Thomas
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“Dreaming of a tomorrow, which tomorrow, will be as distant then as ’tis today.” -Lope de Vega
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“Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.” -Baltasar Gracian
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“Dreaming men are haunted men.” -Stephen Vincent Benet
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“Man is a genius when he is dreaming.” -Akira Kurosawa
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“You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.” -Billy Wilder
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“Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?” -Joan Didion
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“I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.” -Charley Pride
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“People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they’re all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.” -Florence King
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“Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.” -Margaret Fuller
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“One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.” -E. V. Lucas
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“We all keep dreaming, and luckily, dreams come true.” -Katie Holmes
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“I challenge you to be dreamers I challenge you to be doers and let us make the greatest place in the world even better.” -Brian Schweitzer
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“Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.” -Eugene Ionesco
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“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night.” -Bill Watterson
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“When you cease to dream you cease to live.” -Malcolm Forbes
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“Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.” -Terry Pratchett
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“All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.” -Elias Canetti
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“I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.” -Zhuangzi
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“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.” -Yoko Ono
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“I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.” -Madonna Ciccone
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“Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.” -Jean-Paul Sartre
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“The dreamer can know no truth, not even about his dream, except by awaking out of it.” -George Santayana
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“Those who have compared our life to a dream were right… we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.” -Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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“I am a dreamer. Seriously, I’m living on another planet.” -Eva Green
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“I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams… Man… is above all the plaything of his memory.” -Andre Breton
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“Perhaps life is just that… a dream and a fear.” -Joseph Conrad
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“Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.” -Abdul Kalam
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“It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.” -Erma Bombeck
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“Dream and give yourself permission to envision a You that you choose to be.” -Joy Page
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“Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.” -Joseph Campbell
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“I’m a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars, and if I miss a star then I grab a handful of clouds.” -Mike Tyson
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“Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.” -Roy Orbison
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“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.” -Paul Valery
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“Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?” -Alfred Lord Tennyson
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“I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake.” -Rene Descartes
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“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” -Gloria Steinem
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“Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.” -Charles Lindbergh
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“The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.” -Sarah Ban Breathnach
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“There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why… I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?” -Robert Kennedy
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“We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.” -Jesse Owens
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“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.” -Anatole France
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“All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.” -Jack Kerouac
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“Do all you can to make your dreams come true.” -Joel Osteen
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“Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.” -Edgar Cayce
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“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher… or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.” -Douglas Adams
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“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.” -T. E. Lawrence
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“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.” -Harriet Tubman
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“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.” -James Dean
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“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” -Oscar Wilde
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“A dream doesn’t become reality through magic it takes sweat, determination and hard work.” -Colin Powell
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“I’m sick of following my dreams. I’m just going to ask them where they’re goin’, and hook up with them later.” -Mitch Hedberg
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“My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.” -Abraham Lincoln
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