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"You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?"
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"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."
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"Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?"
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"Follow the dreams that your heart visualizes, as what you actually see is just an illusion of temporary contentment."
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"Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness."
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"Our imagination and hope become a reality if we have the courage to believe and take action to realize them."
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"Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams."
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"Dream in a pragmatic way."
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"I would wonder if you could be a hero or heroine if you did not live in deep time, that is, Past, present, and future all at once."
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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."
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"You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?""
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"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."
Future
"This is true joy of life-being used for a purpose that is recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... instead of being a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy."
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"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."
American
"An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it."
Soul
"Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me."
Act
"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."
Man
"There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But in some respects more cruel than a prison. In a prison, for instance, you are not forced to read books written by the warders and the governor. . . .In the prison you are not forced to sit listening to turnkeys discoursing without charm or interest on subjects that they don't understand and don't care about, and therefore incapable of making you understand or care about. In a prison they may torture your body; but they do not torture your brains."
Education
"I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it."
Creativity
"The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing."
Forgiveness
"Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not."
Health
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