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- The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
- Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
- Remember the generational battles twenty years ago? Remember all the screaming at the dinner table about haircuts, getting jobs and the American dream? Well, our parents won. They're out living the American dream on some damned golf course in Vero Beach, and we're stuck with the jobs and haircuts.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
- That all men should be brothers is the dream of people who have no brothers.
- Charles Chincholles
- I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
- M. C. Escher (1898 - 1972)
- People ask me if I've ever been called a Nazi. I answer that no one has ever had dreams of being tied down and sexually ravished by someone dressed as a liberal.
- P.J. O'Rourke
- We bury with many different emotions. Rarely with intimations of mortality. 'Buried' is the ultimate separation of them and us. As other's lives are often only dreams to us, so also others' deaths.
- Josephine Hart - "Sin"
- The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?
- Brendan Francis
- Of all the riches that we hug, of all the pleasures we enjoy, we can carry no more out of this world than out of a dream.
- Bonnell
- There are powers inside of you, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.
- Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)
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