A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

John Lennon
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You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'

George Bernard Shaw
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Hope is a waking dream. -Aristotle
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The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

Oscar Wilde
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I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

Aeschylus
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The whole world is a dream, and death the interpreter. -Yiddish proverb
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I like the dreams of the future, better than the history of the past.

Thomas Jefferson
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Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

John Updike
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Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: - 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.' -Martin Luther King Jr.
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I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.

Oprah Winfrey
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The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.

Oprah Winfrey
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Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves. -Germaine Greer
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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

William Shakespeare
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Edgar Allan Poe
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He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it. -Douglas Adams
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If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.

Walt Disney
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God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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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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It hurts to find out that what you wanted doesn't match what you dreamed it would be.

Randy K. Milholland
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My dream is to save women from nature.

Christian Dior
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There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, 'Yes, I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams.' Then they put the box away and bring it out once in awhile to look in it, and yep, they're still there. -Erma Bombeck
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What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?

Woody Allen
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And our dreams are who we are.

Barbara Sher
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I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man? -Chuang Tzu
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What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.

Pam Brown
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Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake. -Henry David Thoreau
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My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

Henry David Thoreau
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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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