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"Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality."

"Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it."

"We're all living in a chemical soup."

"The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out."

"Music is love in search of a word."

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage."

"Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi."

"Real programmers can write assembly code in any language."

"We're making a major move of the Internet, and runway.polo.com is a natural extension of both polo.com and our collection business."

"I don't design clothes, I design dreams."

"You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job."

"An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today."

"Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick."

"Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier."

"Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed; it is the same as it has always been, since Callimachus administered the great library in Alexandrea."

"We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed..."

"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible."

"Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica."

"Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top."

"If it were proved to me that in making war, my ideal had a chance of being realized, I would still say "no" to war. For one does not create a human society on mounds of corpses."

"I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips."

"What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world."

"Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness."

"Cannibals prefer those who have no spines."

"It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws."

"Music is the shorthand of emotion."

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

"Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason."

"Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that."

"Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath."