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The machine can free man or enslave him; it can make of this world something resembling a paradise or a purgatory. Men have it within their power to achieve a security hitherto dreamed of only by the philosophers, or they may go the way of the dinosaurs, actually disappearing from the earth because they fail to develop the social and political intelligence to adjust to the world which their mechanical intelligence has created.

- William G. Carleton

We are odd compounds full of explosive material to which circumstances may at any time apply a spark, with results undreamed of even by those who thought they knew us best.

- Joseph Farrell

When music sounds, gone is the earth I know, And all her lovelier things even lovelier grow; Her flowers in vision flame, her forest trees Lift burdened branches, stilled with ecstasies. When music sounds, out of the water rise Naiads whose beauty dims my waking eyes, Rapt in strange dream burns each enchanted face, With solemn echoing stirs their dwelling-place. When music sounds, all that I was I am Ere to this haunt of brooding dust I came; And from Time's woods break into distant song The swift-winged hours, as I hasten along.

- Walter John de La Mare

Only as high as I reach can I grow, Only as far as I seek can I go, Only as deep as I look can I see, Only as much as I dream can I be.

- Karen Ravn

We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be.

- Gladys Tabor

The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.

- Barbara Pierce Bush

To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep.

- Joan Klempner

Every successful enterprise requires three men - a dreamer, a businessman, and a son of a bitch.

- Peter McArthur

Perfect knowledge comes only when you see the world in yourself, just as he who awakes from the dream then knows he saw his dream-world with its suns and stars in himself.

- V.S. Iyer

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

- Charles William Dement