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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 _The Seven Pillars of Wisdom_

Dreamer

The poet and the dreamer are distinct ,
Diverse , sheer opposite , antipodes .
The one pours out a balm upon the world ,
The other vexes it .

John Keats

opposite

"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. "

Niels Bohr

Truth

Truth is stranger than fiction .

Proverb

fiction

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

Arthur C Clarke

politcians

A politician is a stateman who approaches every
question with an open mouth .

Adlai Stevenson

question

"Indeed, I came to question the validity of a society that appeared more concerned with imposing its will than in inspiring respect. There seemed to me something grossly wrong with this -- "We'll make you be good!" I was told, and I told myself, nobody should, would or could make me anything. And I proved it."

Caryl Chessman

R-E-S-P-E-C-T
 

what you want
whoop
baby I got it
whoop
what you need
whoop
you know I got it
whoop
all I'm askin'
whoop
Is for a little respect when I'm comin' home....

--- Aretha

Respect

We owe respect to the living;
to the dead we owe only truth.

Voltarie

truth

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."
- Umberto Eco

world

Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings.

~ Dante

follow

"This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day; Thou canst not then be false to any man."

~ William Shakespeare
'Hamlet,' Act I, Scene iii

be

Be still, sad heart, and cease repining,
Behind the clouds the sun is shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary...

~ Longfellow

Fate

Drop the question what tomorrow may bring ,
and count as profit every day that fate allows you .

Horace

tomorrow

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in--forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day--begin it well and serenly and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson