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Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
(Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), U.S. author. Paris France, pt. 4, Charles Scribner's Sons (1940).)
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Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.
(Grover Cleveland (1837-1908), U.S. president. Allan Nevins, Grover Cleveland: A Study in Courage, ch. 13 (1932).)
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I think the American Dream for most people is just survival.
(Sandy Scholl, U.S. owner of a small cleaning service. As quoted in The Great Divide, book 1, section 2, by Studs Terkel (1988).)
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All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
(Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1845), U.S. poet, critic, short-story writer. A Dream within a Dream (1849).)
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For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.
(Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy (1844-1881), British poet. Ode (l. 23-24). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)
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I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
(George Gordon Noel Byron (1788-1824), British poet. Darkness (l. 1). . .
The Poems of Byron. Paul E. More, ed. (1933) Houghton Mifflin.)
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For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.
(Arthur William Edgar O'Shaughnessy (1844-1881), British poet. Ode (l. 23-24). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)
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As words go crying after themselves, leaving the dream
Upended in a puddle somewhere
As though "dead" were just another adjective.
(John Ashbery (b. 1927), U.S. poet, critic. "Tapestry.")
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