"For me, dreaming is simply being pragmatic."

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Source : "Talking Prayer With Shimon Peres at the Israeli Presidential Conference" by Eitan Press, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 26, 2012.

Shimon Peres

#Dream Quotes #Pragmatic Quotes

“I wanted to get away from having a minister who pretends to be a certain type of role model. I don't want my life to serve as an example for anyone.”
“An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.”
“Yeah, but if you're not doing what everyone else is doing then you're going to be misunderstood. People are going to wonder why you're trying to be different; it's just a natural instinct.”
“Women can always think as much as they like, an' they could get up on a platform an' talk till they bust, as long as they didn't want the world to be made no better, an' they wouldn't be thought unwomanly. It's soon as a woman wants any practical good done that she is considered a unwomanly creature.”

Source : Miles Franklin (1909). “Some everyday folk and dawn”
“I was Minnie Mouse for Halloween, every year when I was little. Then, I had the Cinderella nightgown, when I was really little, that I begged my mother to wear to school. I was also Snow White a lot.”
“When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.”

Source : "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book Four, Chapter VIII, 1840.
“Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice.”
“Of course, if you assume a big enough conspiracy, you can explain anything, including the cosmos itself.”

Source : Fritz Leiber (2011). “The Big Time”, p.77, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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