There is nothing like a dream to create the future.


Victor Hugo

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There is nothing like dream to create the future. Utopia to-day, flesh and blood tomorrow.
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Past is nothing but the crumbs of a dream remained in our memory! And the future is just another sho...
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If there is no door to your dream, create one.
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Just imagine! In the early nineteenth century, this cathedral was in such a state of disrepair that ...
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Create future of your own by pushing your dream towards reality by vision & innovation.
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Hurricane Hugo, that wasn't even a good shower of rain. It's nothing compared to this.
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As long as there are still dreams to dream,then there is abundant hope for the future.
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A dream collage is pictures of your goals. It is like your future photo album.
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And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't e...
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No dream is too big. No challenge is too great. Nothing we want for our future is beyond our reach.
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Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
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The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would...
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So long as there shall exist, by virtue of law and custom, decrees of damnation pronounced by societ...
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But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of...
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She let her head fall back upon Marius' knees and her eyelids closed. He thought that poor soul had ...
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The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. ...
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Nothing like being in a dream, then waking up to a nightmare.
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Create the right environment before you work on the future. There's nothing worst than walking throu...
TROY GATHERS
Time is a pool to swim & dream & create in.
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The republic is a dream, Nothing happens unless first a dream
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When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g...
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To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a...
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Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
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The republic is a dream.
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
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Nothing good is a miracle, nothing lovely is a dream.
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One of my biggest inspirations is President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Yea, President Hugo.
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There is always a use for everything, Victor had told him. Even pain.
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The best way to predict the future is to create it.
PETER DRUCKER
Those who want to have a beautiful future must first dream of a beautiful future! Dream is the first...
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There is no evidence Victor Rodriguez physically caused the death of people.
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The best way to predict your future is to create it
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Life itself is only a vision, a dream."
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For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
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If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the fut...
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The beauty of youth is in holding hope and joy within the present and future, while neglecting the p...
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Typing is the future of talking and to don't forgot and brother of feature.
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This is not a Hugo, but it's pretty rough,
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The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future ...
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There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw.
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Not only dream but live your dream. In dream one plants the seed of future.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory o...
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You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory ...
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You've got to create a dream. You've got to uphold the dream. If you can't, go back to the factory o...
ERIC BURDON
Oscar meet Victor. Victor this is Oscar. And may the best man win." - Dead Editor File
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Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
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Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.
VICTOR HUGO
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer ...
VICTOR HUGO
Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
VICTOR HUGO
Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclips...
VICTOR HUGO
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
VICTOR HUGO
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
VICTOR HUGO
The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not d...
VICTOR HUGO