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"If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up."

"It's [the internet] like the flu - it just spreads like crazy."

"No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams."

"The artist should be a seeing-eye dog for a myopic civilization."

"What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?"

"I don't believe in having bands for solo records."

"Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness."

"Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world..."

"Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States."

"I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring."

"Good heavens, of what uncostly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons."

"Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."

"Success is determined by those whom prove the impossible, possible."

"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."

"If men were angels, no government would be necessary."

"There are no atheists in foxholes isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes."

"It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life."

"The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people."

"Love is what you've been through with somebody."

"The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds."

"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."

"This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it."

"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact."

"The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease."

"They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction."

"I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface."

"Style used to be an interaction between the human soul and tools that were limiting. In the digital era, it will have to come from the soul alone."

"I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone."

"Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion."

"Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution."