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If you can dream it, you can do it.

Walt Disney
US cartoonist & movie producer (1901 - 1966)

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

T. E. Lawrence

You see things, and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were, and say "Why not?

George Bernard Shaw, "Metamagical Themas" by Douglas Hofstadter
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)

We need men who can dream of things that never were.

John F. Kennedy, speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963
US Democratic politician (1917 - 1963)

That all men should be brothers is the dream of people who have no brothers.

Charles Chincholles

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Gustave Flaubert
French realist novelist (1821 - 1880)

A chinese philosopher once had a dream that he was a butterfly. From that day on, he was never quite certain that he was not a butterfly, dreaming that he was a man.

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Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phatasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.

Baron Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Robert H. Goddard
US physicist & pioneer rocket engineer (1882 - 1945)

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James A. Froude
English historian (1818 - 1894)

Without a dream to light your way, the world is a very dark place.

Marrion Zimmer Bradley

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.

Anatole France
French novelist (1844 - 1924)

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

Elvis Presley
US rock singer (1935 - 1977)

I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone.

William F. Claire

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Edgar Alan Poe

There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream - whatever that dream might be.

Pearl Buck
US novelist in China (1892 - 1973)

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

Samuel Johnson, Rasselas
English author, critic, & lexicographer (1709 - 1784)

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 3
US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 - 1952)

You can always chase a dream but it will not count if you never catch it.

Malcolm X, Autobiography of Malcolm X chap 4
US black nationalist leader (1925 - 1965)

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