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Harry Hay Activist
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"Confronted with the loving-sharing Consensus of subject-SUBJECT relationships all Authoritarianism must vanish. The Fairy Family Circle, co-joined in the shared vision of non-possessive love - which is the granting to any other and all others that total space wherein each may grow and soar to his own freely-selected, full potential - reaching out to one another subject-to-SUBJECT, becomes for the first time in history the true working model of a Sharing Consensus!"

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Helen Keller Author, Activist
Vision

"The infinite wonders of the universe are revealed to us in exact measure as we are capable of receiving them. The keenness of our vision depends not on how much we can see, but on how much we feel."

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Patrick Grant Artist
Vision

"Work really hard, think carefuly about how you spend every penny, and be absolutely true to your own vision of your clothes and your brand. It has to be personal."

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Bell Hooks Author, Feminist, Social Activist
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"Sadly, at a time when so much sophisticated cultural criticism by hip intellectuals from diverse locations extols a vision of cultural hybridity, border crossing, subjectivity constructed out of plurality, the vast majority of folks in this society still believe in a notion of identity that is rooted in a sense of essential traits and characteristics that are fixed and static."

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William Butler Yeats Poet, Playwright
Vision

"I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know."

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Virginia Woolf Novelist
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"The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to finger what Plato said or remember Napoleon and his conquests, we inflict on the world the injury of some obliquity. This is life."

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Simon Sinek Author, Motivational Speaker
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"Vision is a destination - a fixed point to which we focus all effort. Strategy is a route - an adaptable path to get us where we want to go."

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Sri Aurobindo Philosopher, Poet, Politician
Vision

"A great thing would be done if all these God-visions could embrace and cast themselves into each other; but intellectual dogma and cult egoism stand in the way."

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Rollo May Psychologist, Author
Vision

"Receptivity requires a nimbleness, a fine-honed sensitivity in order to let one's self be the vehicle of whatever vision may emerge."

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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
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"Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self."

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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
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"Take the blinders from your vision take the padding from your ears and confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears."

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Bell Hooks Author, Feminist, Social Activist
Vision

"Imagine living in a world where there is no domination, where females and males are not alike or even always equal, but where a vision of mutuality is the ethos shaping our interaction."

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Adrienne Rich Poet, Essayist, Feminist
Vision

"To seek visions, to dream dreams, is essential, and it is also essential to try new ways of living, to make room for serious experimentation, to respect the effort even where it fails."

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