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We know a way now to make use of democracy, and we know how to change the attitude of people towards...

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O Light Invisible, we praise Thee! Too bright for mortal vision. O Greater Light, we praise Thee for...

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Nothing is lost that we do not first see as lost, High Lord. Believe it saved, and it may be. Vision...

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Terry BrooksMagic Kingdom For Sale/Sold

It is in Rousseau's writing above all that history begins to turn from upper-class honour to middle-...

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In order to succeed we need leaders of inspired idealism, leaders to whom are granted great visions,...

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My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone I build My ...

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Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left - which prevails in our education...

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One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate a...

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We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democraticall...

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There is no seamen in the world who prefers a slow ship to a fast one. The painters painted better, ...

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We can all be clockmakers, or astronomers. But if we all wanted to be Pushkin. . .if the question is...

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In the twilight, it was a vision of power.

I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work —...

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His eyes saved him. What they insisted on seeing and reporting to him took him out of the autism of ...

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Success is about dedication. You may not be where you want to be or do what you want to do when you'...

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Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.

There are often beams in our eye that we know not of. Let us therefore ask that our eye may become s...

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Vincent van GoghThe Letters of Vincent van Gogh

There were mountains; there were valleys; there were streams. She climbed the mountains; roamed the ...

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I have had my vision.

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Virginia WoolfTo the Lighthouse

She could have wept. It was bad, it was bad, it was infinitely bad! She could have done it different...

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The Communist vision is the vision of man without God.

Vision is the end of religion.

If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is - infinite.

At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.

I have an idea of who I want to be, I have a vision of my own success.

Art is solace; art is vision, and when I pick up a literary work, I am a consumer of literature for ...

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Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind,...

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If people see the Capitol going on, it is a sign we intend the Union shall go on

Respected Teacher,My son will have to learn that all men are not just, all men are not true. But tea...

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He has neither what I call the outward vision (seeing details all around you what is called an obser...

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The eye is diverted from the real business, it is caught by the spectacular action that means nothin...

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Agatha ChristieThe Mysterious Mr. Quin

We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.

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Alan TuringComputing machinery and intelligence

Still, it was vision, or at least vision’s idiot cousin.

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Alastair ReynoldsRevelation Space

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and a...

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Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of ...

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We shall change all that...because it is possible to change the world, if one is determined enough, ...

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Alexander McCall SmithThe Kalahari Typing School for Men

There is no study that is not capable of delighting us, after a little application to it.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previou...

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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - t...

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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- ...

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Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.

Great people stand out from others by their visions and not much by their intelligence.

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

Success needs vision to see, passion to transcend, patience to withstand and the character to overco...

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The tower of success stands on the pillars of vision, action, patience and the character to withstan...

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I never lose sight of the whole. An impeccable dress is made to be lived in, to be torn, wet, staine...

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Anaïs NinThe Diary of Anaïs Nin

To be a prophet, Knox emphasizes, requires living in and looking at the present, at what is really g...

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I want to climb up the blank blue dome as a man would storm the inside of a circus tent, wildly, dan...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I chanced on a wonderful book by Marius von Senden, called Space and Sight. . . . For the newly sigh...

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History is a vision of God's creation on the move.

In weeks that followed, I refined this vision until it was very specific. I was going to go for the ...

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Arnold SchwarzeneggerTotal Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

Some people must dream broadly and guilelessly, if only to balance those who never dream at all.

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less an...

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When I use my strength in the service of my vision it makes no difference whether or not I am afraid...

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When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and...

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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the found...

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Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but...

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Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but t...

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The negative side of the American Dream comes when people pursue success at any cost, which in turn ...

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On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're goin...

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The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they fa...

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When you found a company, you have the original vision, you make all the original decisions, you kno...

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You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what arc...

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I am a socialist; of course I am a socialist. To hold a vision that society can be fundamentally dif...

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What being a socialist means is... that you hold out... a vision of society where poverty is absolut...

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Wise leaders understand that the single greatest determinant of whether followers will ever own a vi...

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Bill HybelsAxiom: Powerful Leadership Proverbs

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have bee...

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I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.

To use the power of the bison, I had to perform that part of my vision for the people to see.

I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is...

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Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your ...

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Retain the vision for space exploration. If we turn our backs on the vision again, we're going to ha...

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(Of the main character seeing a new world for the first time.) The air was cold but not bitterly so,...

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Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams;...

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He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.

The miserable man was a man of that confined stolidity of mind that he could not discuss my prospect...

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The author defines professionalism as exemplified by his subjects in their mutual unwillingness to t...

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Chris MatthewsTip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked

I said, "I'm satisfied teaching the martial arts.""Not me," Arnold responded. "Bodybuilding is just ...

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Chuck NorrisAgainst All Odds: My Story

Everything I've been thinking, every vision, even down to every shot I throw, it just ends up here i...

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If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are co...

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You can't counter a heroic impulse with a mundane and bourgeois response. You can counter it only wi...

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Young Arab men are not going to walk away from extremism because they can suddenly afford a Slurpee....

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I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too. So I speak as Brit...

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Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.

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David EaglemanIncognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

Innovation is so hard and so frustrating; it takes the intersections of people with courage, vision,...

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The more boundless your vision, the more real you are.

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Deepak ChopraLife After Death: The Burden of Proof

As an artist I have always tried to be faithful to my vision of life, and I have frequently been in ...

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Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than they love the Christian community itse...

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But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are i...

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While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see ...

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True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result ...

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The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vis...

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There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stag...

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My vision is for a fully reusable rocket transport system between Earth and Mars that is able to re-...

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Not “Revelation” – tis – that waitsBut our unfurnished eyes –

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Emily DickinsonThe Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possib...

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Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision....

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