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Assata Shakur Activist
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"Freedom! you askin me about freedom. I'll be honest with you. I know a whole more about what freedom isn't than about what it is, 'cause I've never been free. I can only share my vision with you of the future, about what freedom is."

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Robert Kennedy Politician
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"The future does not belong to those who are content with today Rather, it will belong to those who can blend vision, reason, and courage in a personal commitment."

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Gordon Willis Cinematographer
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"There are a lot of cameramen but not so many photographers. And a lot of cameramen attack from a technical approach without much imagination. They look, but they don't see."

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Plotinus Philosopher
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"In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view; the vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical."

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Joseph Campbell Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
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"Our demons are our own limitations, which shut us off from the realization of the ubiquity of the spirit . . . each of these demons is conquered in a vision quest."

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D. H. Lawrence Novelist, Poet
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"Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth."

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Eleanor Roosevelt Political Activist, Diplomat
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"You rarely achieve finality. If you did, life would be over, but as you strive new visions open before you, new possibilities for the satisfaction of living."

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Charlotte Bronte Novelist, Poet
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"There is, I am convinced, no picture that conveys in all its dreadfulness, a vision of sorrow, despairing, remediless, supreme. If I could paint such a picture, the canvas would show only a woman looking down at her empty arms."

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Kiki Smith Artist
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"You can have fantasies about having control over the world, but I know I can barely control my kitchen sink. That is the grace I'm given. Because when one can control things, one is limited to one's own vision."

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Vaclav Havel Politician, Playwright
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"We must not be afraid of dreaming the seemingly impossible if we want the seemingly impossible to become a reality."

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Ramakrishna Spiritual Leader
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"Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God."

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