"Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision."
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"The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives in a tenth of the truth, and thinks it is the whole. The madman cannot conceive any cosmos outside a certain tale or conspiracy or vision."
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"And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators."
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"In the weeks and months ahead, my task is to show I have the new ideas, the vision and the experience to earn the trust of the British people."
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"you cannot make a person believe anything unless that person has already had a conscious or unconscious vision of the same thing; you have no conviction of truth unless you have already apprehended it intuitively."
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"Yesterday's dust determined today's range of vision"
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"His vision was just outstanding. If you think of him in the same way as Pele then you would come close."
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"I perceive that we inhabitants of New England live this mean life that we do because our vision does not penetrate the surface ofthings. We think that that is which appears to be."
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"Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray."
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"The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and expect the time when a vision as broad shall overlook the same field as freely."
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"Beside some philosophers of larger vision, Carlyle stands like an honest, half-despairing boy, grasping at some details only of their world systems."
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"Methinks I am never quite committed, never wholly the creature of my moods, but always to some extent their critic. My only integral experience is in my vision. I see, perchance, with more integrity than I feel."
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"Executives should blog if they have a vision they are trying to communicate, or if they are very visible in the media."
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"There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are enwrapped like mummies. Some are powerful enough to resurrect the dead. Some steal on us unawares and put a spell over us which it takes centuries to throw off. Some put a curse on us, for our st idity and inertia, and then it seems as if God himself were unable to lift it."
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"An angel stood and met my gaze, Through the low doorway of my tent; The tent is struck, the vision stays; I only know she came and went."
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"Burn, O evening hearth, and waken Pleasant visions, as of old! Though the house by winds be shaken, Safe I keep this room of gold!"
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"[Heraclitus] did not require humans or their sort of knowledge, since everything into which one may inquire he despises [as being] in contrast [to his own] inward-turning wisdom. [To him] all learning from others is a sign of nonwisdom, because the wise man focuses his vision on his own intelligence."
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"Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal."
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"The strength required for the vision of the most powerful reality is not only compatible with the most powerful strength for action, for monstrous action, for crime - it even presupposes it."
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"In principle, Hamas is not keen to be part of an unjust negotiation process in which the only things that comes out of it are new concessions for our people. Why should we negotiate? Unfortunately, even with the Donald Trump administration, I don't see any real vision toward achieving just peace."
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