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Quote by Max Beerbohm
We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening

We must stop talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of Americans. – Max Beerbohm

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You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men. – Max Beerbohm

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Conformity
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The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own. – Max Beerbohm

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Beauty
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America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams. – David Brooks

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I began my career with infantile dreams of becoming a composer. – Ivor Novello

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Dreams

Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see. – John Gardner

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Dreams have only one owner at a time. Thats why dreamers are lonely. – Erma Bombeck

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I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open? – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort Dix or at apost in Germany than it will be with us. – Sargent Shriver

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[B]y far the larger number of the dreams… occurred towards dawn; sometimes even, after sunrise, during a “second sleep.” A condition of fasting, united, possibly, with some subtle magnetic or other atmospheric state, seems therefore to be that most open to impressions of the kind. – Dr. Anna Bonus Kingsford, 1886, preface to Dreams and Dream-Stories, 1888

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It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission. – Sally Ride

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