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To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has becom

To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature. – Ernst Fischer

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The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster. – Ernst Fischer

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Tragedy
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Ernst Fischer
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In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it. – Ernst Fischer

Category:
Art
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Ernst Fischer
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Dreams
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To the degree were not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves. – Peter McWilliams

Category:
Dreams

All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them – much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are. – Alice Hoffman

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Dreams

Big dreams create the magic that stir mens souls to greatness. – Bill McCartney

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Dreams

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming. – Novalis

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Dreams

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A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he wont get a bikini wax. – Rita Rudner

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War

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about. – Christopher Lasch

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Family

Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. – From the television show The Wonder Years

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Yearbooks

If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others. – Clay Aiken

Category:
Education