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"Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living."

"Dreams are necessary to life."

"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't."

"To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all."

"Just living is not enough... One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower."

"The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark."

"Therefore is a word the poet must not know."

"I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory."

Art begins with resistance-at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."

"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again."

"To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less."

"Business is a combination of war and sport."

"The most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force."

"The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees..."

"And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department."

"Here is the prime condition of success: Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged. Having begun on one line, resolve to fight it out on that line, to lead in it, adopt every improvement, have the best machinery, and know the most about it"

"He had a Puritan conscience and an Episcopalian sense of sin. The first pricked at him persistently, the second was excused through public piety."

"All love shifts and changes. I don't know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time."

"Congress will pass a law restricting public comment on the Internet to individuals who have spent a minimum of one hour actually accomplishing a specific task while on line."

"Leaders have to act more quickly today. The pressure comes much faster."

"Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC."

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!"

"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done."

"It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to look how you feel about it."

"Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible."

"I am a deeply superficial person."

"Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches."

"An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them."

"I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning."