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" To be a human being is to be in a state of tension between your appetites and your dreams, and the social realities around you and your obligations to your fellow man. "

John Updike

Human

Dreams

Your Dreams

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" It is exactly because we are a city that embraces freedom, that welcomes everyone and encourages their dreams, that New York remains on the front lines in the war on terror. "

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" When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live. "

" If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. "

" By comparison, 'The Secret Agent' is not especially prescient about terrorism, certainly not technically. The Professor was a stock figure of Edwardian fiction, and his dreams of mass destruction were nothing ahead of their time. Many novels in the late 19th and early 20th centuries involved plots far more deadly. "

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Difficult

Stories

" We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others. "

" Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed. "

" A daydream is an evasion. "

" Night is the mother of counsels. "

" But what I'd really like to tell you is I never dreamed of being in the Hall of Fame. Standing here with all these great players was beyond any of my dreams. "

" I mean, every child at one stage dreams of being a prince or a princess. "

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Stage

Princess

Dreams

" I have dreams of becoming a professional pastry chef and having a little bakery - that's how much I love baking. I love to cook in general, but my heart lies in desserts. "

" My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can't take that away from me. "

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Yankee

Away

" Dreaming men are haunted men. "

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Haunted

Men

Dreams

" Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. "

" By the mid-17th century, telescopes had improved enough to make visible the seasonally growing and shrinking polar ice caps on Mars, and features such as Syrtis Major, a dark patch thought to be a shallow sea. "

" We will bring back our jobs. We will bring back our borders. We will bring back our wealth. And we will bring back our dreams. "

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Dreams

Meaning