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The Dana Alliance is committed to educating teachers and students about neuroscience as a means of raising awareness and sparking a greater interest in neuroscience at an earlier age and to inspire the next generation of neuroscientists. By integrating neuroscience in the classroom, today's students are provided with a solid base of knowledge of the brain and brain research.
The Alliance's neuroscience education initiatives include developing pilot programs and/or partnering with other organizations in existing programs by providing tools for teachers and students to learn about the brain and brain research. This effort includes, but is not limited to implementation of teacher and/or student workshops; providing teaching tools and other curricula supplements; distribution of Dana Foundation and Alliance publications; and access to scientific experts.
Although the primary focus of the Alliance's neuroeducation effort is aimed at the middle school, high school, and post-secondary level for both teachers and students, young students in grades K-8 as well as people in upper age demographics are reached through Brain Awareness Week and other Alliance and Foundation programs and projects.
The New York Hall of Science was awarded a grant from the Dana Foundation to support the Dana Brain Science Educator Series. The program is designed to train Kindergarten through fourth grade teachers (Dana Fellows) to develop curricula on the brain and brain research appropriate for the standards and requirements of their grade level. Dana Fellows learn about the topic in a lecture from an expert in that field. Their curriculum also includes a visit to an applicable neuroscience facility; attending workshops on classroom-based investigations in neuroscience and development and presentation of lesson plans developed by the Fellows and eventually used in their classroom teaching. Dana Fellows act as mentors to all subsequent participants in this program. Previous Foundation grants to the New York Hall of Science for similar programs were targeted to middle and high school teachers.
Lesson Plans from Dana Brain Science Educator Series
Brain-related lesson plans developed by Dana Fellows, middle and high school teacher participants in the Dana Brain Science Educator Series, are now available online at http://brainscience.ning.com/page/lessonplans-1 (quick registration required.) In addition to the lessons, teachers can join a social network for dialogues with previous and current Dana Fellows; view photos from sessions; find brain-related resources such as videos and podcasts, and learn about upcoming brain events in the New York metropolitan area. Due to the large number of lesson plans developed over the past several years, they will be categorized by grade level and theme and be rotated on a predetermined cycle.
Interviews with Dana Alliance Members and Other Eminent Neuroscientists Available on Society for Neuroscience Web site
Pioneers in brain research have made significant advances in the field of neuroscience that have shown the potential for conquering devastating diseases and disorders of the brain that afflict many millions of people worldwide.
A collection of video interviews with many of these distinguished neuroscientists are available online in the Society for Neuroscience's (SfN) History of Neuroscience in Autobiography series. The SfN also offers a five-volume book series of autobiographical chapters on pioneers in neuroscience.
Lending Library
DABI's "Lending Library" program is a collaboration with university neuroscience departments. Started in late 2004, brain and neuron models, posters, etc. are provided to university departments for post docs and instructors to use in outreach education in their community, usually classroom instruction in local schools.
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New York City Regional Brain Bee
Each year, in celebration of Brain Awareness Week, the Dana Alliance coordinates The New York City Regional Brain Bee Competition in New York City. The Brain Bee is a live competition that tests the neuroscience knowledge of high school students. The first place winner of the New York City Bee is eligible to compete in the United States National Brain Bee at the University of Maryland, a highlight event during Brain Awareness Week.
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Wired to Win
Wired to Win: Surviving the Tour de France, a Giant Screen IMAX film that premiered in December 2005 is the centerpiece of an ambitious, multi-component project designed to generate new enthusiasm for science and stimulate a popular understanding of brain biology. Dana Alliance member Dennis J. Selkoe, M.D., served as one of the film's science advisors, and the Alliance has supported promotional and outreach efforts for the film.
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The Secret Life of the Brain
The Dana Alliance was a sponsor of The Secret Life Of The Brain, a five-part public television series that premiered nationally on PBS in winter 2002. The critically acclaimed David Grubin Production reveals the fascinating processes involved in brain development across a lifetime. The series informs viewers of exciting new information in the brain sciences, introduces the foremost researchers in the field, including several Dana Alliance members, and utilizes dynamic visual imagery and compelling human stories to help a general audience understand otherwise difficult scientific concepts. The Alliance played an instrumental role in promoting the series through grassroots outreach.
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text: Hunting: Story Story Posted 01-04-2012 Craig Morgan: A Hunt with Mom First deer came at 12 as he sat in his mother's lap By: Craig Lamb, OutdoorChannel.com Watch "Craig Morgan All Access Outdoors" and you get a glimpse of the popular country music performer's passion for living the outdoor lifestyle. His enthusiasm is undeniable and it can be traced back to a memorable childhood moment shared with his late mother, Betty Sue Crockett. "I grew up in an outdoor kind of family and when dad was working she'd take us fishing and hunting," recalls Morgan, host of the popular series on Outdoor Channel. "Mom passed away last year and that makes this story all the more meaningful." Morgan tells the story with the same enthusiasm as if it happened now, instead of some three decades past. It was a crisp, cool fall morning when at the time 12-year-old Morgan and his mom slipped into the middle Tennessee woods. Morgan toted a Savage 12-gauge shotgun loaded with a 00 buck shot shell, intent on using it to harvest his first deer. The hunt would be simplicity at its finest, with no trees stands to carry or trees to climb. "We sat down at the base of a tree and I was actually sitting in her lap, between her legs like you do when you're turkey hunting," he muses. "We were just sitting there quite as we could be, waiting for a deer to come by. Sure enough, a decent-sized doe came by and I took it, sitting in my mom's lap. That's a story you don't hear about often. "We hunted and did everything outdoors as a family. But mom always wanted us to know that she was just as capable of doing anything my dad could do out there. That we could count on her to go all the way with us when we went fishing or hunting." On this trip, she did that and more. "Now what's really funny about it was me helping my mom field dress my first deer, rather than the other way around," he recalls. "Basically, I learned how to field dress a deer from my mom." Above all else, Morgan's first deer story is a page taken from the chapters of a family storybook where sharing the outdoors has been the common theme for generations. Share This Story Next From Story Didn't Draw a Tag: 7 Tips for 'Plan C' Western Hunting Success Related Adventure : Posted 04-11-2013 Singer Craig Morgan is Real-Life Survivalist View Adventure : Posted 03-02-2013 Craig Morgan to Embark on the Adventure of a Lifetime View Hunting : Posted 02-22-2011 Craig Morgan Rescues Family From Burning House View Comments Categories News Stories Recipes Tips Gear Videos Photo Galleries Viewer Photo Galleries Features Deer Season Outdoors 365 with Lynn Burkhead Everything Deer with Jeremy Flinn Short Stories by Larry Potterfield Opening Days Live Hunts Hunting Check Out All The Photos Explore the United States. Find information about and activities within your state. Get Started


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In all fairness Jikan, I entered this forum looking for the differences between theravaden and mahayana buddhism and have found none, just different practicioners. I am personally opposed to having two different forums to discuss the teachings and I think the buddha would have been dissapointed to see this as well.Jikan wrote:How does Tolle explain bodhicitta? (since we're on a Mahayana Buddhism board...)
Does he?
How is one motivated to practice in Tolle's doctrine?
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While Stockton's downtown is generally safe - you might say its bark is worse than its blight - it is light years from an economic boon, or even a healthy neighborhood.
While Stockton's downtown is generally safe - you might say its bark is worse than its blight - it is light years from an economic boon, or even a healthy neighborhood.
What are its prospects for 2013?
"Right now it's all about setting the stage," said Wendy Saunders, Stockton's economic development director.
"Our challenge is to lay the groundwork for creating an environment that is inviting so that when the market comes back, we've created a place that has promise," Saunders said.
That's a handful. Stockton has barely begun to recover from the Great Recession; the stony-broke city has filed for bankruptcy; Gov. Jerry Brown eliminated redevelopment agencies in 2011.
Yet there is good news.
Local restaurateur Bruce Davies, anticipating a downtown comeback, plans to close Le Bistro and open a Cajun restaurant in the Paragary's space in the Hotel Stockton in April.
A successful restaurant would further revive downtown's northwest corner. Especially since Davies has plans to link to boaters and fans at the arena and ballpark.
"Stockton's downtown is right on the verge of exploding," Davies said in January. "That's why we're here."
Next door, urban developer Dan Cort has plans to transform the historic B&M Building into a cafe, wine bar and specialty grocery store. He envisions tables outside on Janet Leigh Plaza.
In central downtown, Cort's son, Zac Cort, is remaking the old Newberry building at 331 E. Weber Ave. into offices, a restaurant and day care.
"I believe we need to truly develop infill with retail, restaurants - we need to have a walkable community down here," Zac Cort said. He has bought up other downtown properties, as well.
Specialists from The Urban Land Institute suggested last year to rejuvenate Miner Avenue, so as to build on the success of the Cabral ACE station, before tackling downtown's core.
Consequently, the city drafted a $10 million plan to gussy up Miner. Leaders will ask Uncle Sam for the money on their annual One Voice trip to Washington this spring.
A sea change in Stockton city government promises results, too. City Manager Bob Deis replaced the red tape mongers in the Community Development Department with business-friendly people.
In another change, the Downtown Stockton Alliance replaced a do-nothing leader with a go-getter. The Alliance also funded two Stockton Police bicycle cops to patrol downtown.
The next step for downtown is housing for neighborhood residents.
"Until there's bodies down here 24 hours a day that are doing productive things, these venues that are here and set up to receive activity are not going to thrive," said the Downtown Alliance's Emily Baime.
But in the tough economy, few private investors are willing to invest in big downtown housing projects.
Worse, when Gov. Brown eliminated redevelopment, he not only took away the city's ability to partner with private investors, the draconian law requires Stockton to sell off redevelopment assets.
For example, the city must sell 8.8 acres of land on the south bank of the channel. On that land the city hoped to build homes, perhaps even a hotel. It still hopes to.
"We've lost all of our powers to be partners in private development, our monetary powers," Saunders said. But, "we still have the ability to make the land use approval process easier. That's very meaningful."
Though circumstances are far from ideal, there remain people who love the downtown and recognize its importance and potential.
Zac Cort: "You've got the history, you got the water, there's all the resources we could offer. Can Stockton be a great city again? I think downtown could be the catalyst. I truly, truly believe that."
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For LG, the key to mobile dominance has nothing to do with nice-looking devices, and everything to do with future-thinking ideas.
Speaking today to Korea's iNews24, LG Mobile Managing Director Kwon Bong-suk said that his company is currently in the preparation phase of developing a "thinking smartphone" that LG believes could put the company over the top and cause apparently dumb devices to lose out.
The mobile chief didn't provide too many details on how the device would act, but did say that it could, for example, adjust its built-in alarm clock based on external factors. So if a person has the alarm clock set for 6 a.m., but the thinking phone realizes there's heavy traffic on the route to work, it might wake the person up at 5:30 a.m. instead.
Whether customers would actually want a thinking smartphone, however, is not immediately apparent. On one hand, a thinking device might make lives easier. But what if the user doesn't mind waking up at 6 a.m. and being a little late? Perhaps more importantly, how can the thinking function be modified to react to the user's desire? It also should be interesting to see if LG will allow the device to learn from users over time.
Regardless, LG's desire to make a mark in the mobile space is becoming increasingly apparent. At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona earlier this year, the company mad a major mark, unveiling a host of smartphones -- including additions to its somewhat popular Optimus line -- that it plans to pit against Apple's iPhone and Samsung's Galaxy line.
A key ingredient in taking on other Android vendors is getting access to Google's "Nexus" branding. At Mobile World Congress, LG's smartphone division head, Ramchan Woo, told CNET that his company is currently "having discussions" with the search company to be a Nexus vendor.
Kwon didn't say when LG's thinking smartphone might launch. But considering the company is still considering its options, don't expect it anytime soon.
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As the Union Pacific freight train barreled toward the veterans parade trailer crossing the tracks in Midland, Texas, Army Sgt. Joshua Michael, 34, reacted on instincts.
As witnesses and police later put it, Michael's hero mode kicked in.
The husband and father of two, with moments to react before the train smashed into the trailer carrying him and 25 others, shoved his wife off the trailer and out of harm's way, saving her life at the cost of his own.
Michael displayed "an ultimate act of courage," his family wrote on a website created to lend support to Michael's survivors. "This act of courage is something which Josh has demonstrated as a two-tour Iraq war veteran."
The parade Thursday was part of the city's annual Hunt for Heroes celebration honoring military veterans. This year's group was scheduled to participate in an expenses-paid hunting trip.


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A dream is a succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that usually occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. The content and purpose of dreams are not fully understood, though they have been a topic of scientific, philosophical and religious interest throughout recorded history. Dream interpretation is the attempt at drawing meaning from dreams and searching for an underlying message. The scientific study of dreams is called oneirology.
- Under each arm he carries an umbrella; one of them, with pictures on the inside, he spreads over the good children, and then they dream the most beautiful stories the whole night. But the other umbrella has no pictures, and this he holds over the naughty children so that they sleep heavily, and wake in the morning without having dreamed at all.
- Hans Christian Andersen Ole Lukøje
- Follow your dreams, not your boyfriends.
- Gillian Anderson, as she wrote in a letter to her teenage self — from Dear Me: More Letters To My Sixteen-Year-Old Self, edited by Joseph Galliano. (June 19, 2011)
- Álomban és szerelemben nincs lehetetlenség.
- In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
- János Arany, as quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893) by James Wood, p. 11.
- In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.
- Courage is the magic that turns dreams into reality.
- Aster and Richter Abend in Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World.
- Sweet sleep be with us, one and all!
And if upon its stillness fall
The visions of a busy brain,
We'll have our pleasure o'er again,
To warm the heart, to charm the sight,
Gay dreams to all! good night, good night.
- Joanna Baillie, The Phantom, Song (1836).
- Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me. Imagination has brought mankind through the Dark Ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams — day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing — are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization. A prominent educator tells me that fairy tales are of untold value in developing imagination in the young. I believe it.
- L. Frank Baum, Introduction to The Lost Princess of Oz (1917).
- Perhaps you have heard the story of Christopher Wren, one of the greatest of English architects, who walked one day unrecognized among the men who were at work upon the building of St. Paul's cathedral in London which he had designed. "What are you doing?" he inquired of one of the workmen, and the man replied, "I am cutting a piece of stone." As he went on he put the same question to another man, and the man replied, "I am earning five shillings twopence a day." And to a third man he addressed the same inquiry and the man answered, "I am helping Sir Christopher Wren build a beautiful cathedral." That man had vision. He could see beyond the cutting of the stone, beyond the earning of his daily wage, to the creation of a work of art—the building of a great cathedral. And in your life it is important for you to strive to attain a vision of the larger whole.
- Attributed to Louise Bush-Brown, director of the Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women. Reported in as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).
- And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.
- The Bible, Book of Joel, chapter 2, verse 28.
- Trapped dreams must die.
- James Branch Cabell, The Certain Hour (1916), "To Robert Gamble Cabell II: In Dedication of The Certain Hour'".
- I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books — brave books that would preserve the glories of the Dream untarnished, and would re-create them for battered people, and re-awaken joy and magnanimity.
- James Branch Cabell, The Certain Hour (1916), "Auctorial Induction".
- The Dream, as I now know, is not best served by making parodies of it, and it does not greatly matter after all whether a book be an epic or a directory. What really matters is that there is so much faith and love and kindliness which we can share with and provoke in others, and that by cleanly, simple, generous living we approach perfection in the highest and most lovely of all arts. . . . But you, I think, have always comprehended this.
- James Branch Cabell, The Certain Hour (1916), "Auctorial Induction".
- I can but entreat you to remember it is only by preserving faith in human dreams that we may, after all, perhaps some day make them come true.
- James Branch Cabell, The Cream of the Jest : A Comedy of Evasions (1917) "Richard Fentnor Harroby" in Ch. 1 : Pallation of the Gambit.
- With the passage of time, whatever a man had done, whether for good or evil, with the man's bodily organs, left the man's parish unaffected: only a man's thoughts and dreams could outlive him, in any serious sense, and these might survive with perhaps augmenting influence: so that Kennaston had come to think artistic creation in words — since marble and canvas inevitably perished — was the one, possibly, worth-while employment of human life. But here was a crude corporal deed which bluntly destroyed thoughts, and annihilated dreams by wholesale. To Kennaston this seemed the one real tragedy that could be staged on earth....
- James Branch Cabell, The Cream of the Jest (1917) "Richard Fentnor Harroby" in Ch. 24 : Deals with Pen Scratches.
- Man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams.
- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion : A Comedy of Redemption (1926), Manuel, in Book Four : Coth at Porutsa, Chapter XXV : Last Obligation upon Manuel
- People must have both their dreams and their dinners in this world, and when we go out of it we must take what we find. That is all.
- James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion : A Comedy of Redemption (1926), Niafer, in Book Ten : At Manuel's Tomb, Chapter LXIX : Economics of Jurgen.
- Freud very rightly brought his critical faculties to bear upon the dream. It is, in fact, inadmissible that this considerable portion of psychic activity (since, at least from man's birth until his death, thought offers no solution of continuity, the sum of the moments of the dream, from the point of view of time, and taking into consideration only the time of pure dreaming, that is the dreams of sleep, is not inferior to the sum of the moments of reality, or, to be more precisely limiting, the moments of waking) has still today been so grossly neglected.
- André Breton, initiator of French Surrealism, from the first Manifesto of Surrealism - 1924; The Abridged Dictionary of Surrealism, reprinted in Marguerite Bonnet, ed. (1988). Oeuvres complètes, 1:328. Paris: Éditions Gallimard
- I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.
- Emily Brontë, Catherine Earnshaw (Ch. IX). Wuthering Heights (1847).
- The dreamer dies, but never dies the dream,
Though Death shall call the whirlwind to his aid,
Enlist men's passions, trick their hearts with hate,
Still shall the Vision live! Say never more
That dreams are fragile things. What else endures
Of all this broken world save only dreams!
- Dana Burnet, "Who Dreams Shall Live", in Poems (1915), p. 209, lines 11–16.
- His early dreams of good outstripp'd the truth,
- And troubled manhood follow'd baffled youth.
- Byron, Lara, Canto 18.
- Alice! a childish story take,
And with a gentle hand
Lay it where Childhood's dreams are twined
In Memory's mystic band,
Like pilgrim's withered wreath of flowers
Plucked in a far-off land.
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), opening poem, stanza seven.
- Life, what is it but a dream?
- If you have never had a dream, perhaps you have only dreamt to be alive.
- Fausto Cercignani in: Brian Morris, Quotes we cherish. Quotations from Fausto Cercignani, 2013, p. 21.
- Perhaps it is not true that "a man becomes what he dreams"; but if he does not dream, what kind of a man is he?
- Fausto Cercignani, in: Brian Morris, Simply Transcribed. Quotations from Fausto Cercignani, 2013, p. 13.
- Un poète doit laisser des traces de son passage, non des preuves. Seules les traces font rêver.
- Myths are themselves a very important kind of proof. Myths preserve the history of human thought - dreams, nightmares, and memories - as well as the history of human deeds. And tangible proof aside, the legendary Amazons have been an almost universal male nightmare. Men have believed in them. Psychologically speaking, we don't fear something that doesn't exist, something that never happened, something that never could happen - any more than people forbid or regulate something that no one wants to do anyway.
- Wonder Woman interview with Phyllis Chesler (1972)
- The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel.
- G. K. Chesterton, Twelve Types (1903) "Sir Walter Scott".
- Charles Xavier's dream — where all Earth's children, mutant or otherwise, live together in peace and harmony! Where people are judged for who they are — not what they look like or how they're born. That's why he created the X-men, to exemplify that dream.
- Chris Claremont, in lines for Rachel Summers as Phoenix, in the first issue of Excalibur, Excalibur : The Sword is Drawn (1987), p. 45
- I have become increasingly convinced that some of the popular methods presumed to discover what is in the unconscious cannot be counted upon as reliable methods of obtaining evidence. They often involve the use of symbolism and analogy in such a way that the interpreter can find virtually anything that he is looking for. Freud, for instance, from a simple dream reported by a man in his middle twenties [i.e., Sergei Pankejeff ] as having occurred at 4 years of age drew remarkable conclusions. The 4-year-old boy dreamed of seeing six or seven white wolves sitting in a tree. Freud interpreted the dream in such a way as to convince himself that the patient at 18 months of age had been shocked by seeing his parents have intercourse three times in succession and that this played a major part in the extreme fear of being castrated by his father which Freud ascribed to him at 4 years of age. No objective evidence was ever offered to support this conclusion. Nor was actual fear of castration ever made to emerge into the light of consciousness despite years of analysis.
- Hervey Cleckley, The Mask of Sanity, 1941, fifth edition 1976, ISBN 0-9621519-0-4
- If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake — Aye, what then?
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Anima Poetæ : From the Unpublished Note-books of Samuel Taylor Coleridge" (1895) edited by Ernest Hartley Coleridge, p. 282.
- Don't ever let someone tell you, you can't do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you got to protect it. People can't do something themselves, they want to tell you you can't do it. You want something, go get it. Period.
- Steve Conrad, The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) based on the book by Chris Gardner
- Dream after dream ensues;
And still they dream that they shall still succeed;
And still are disappointed.
- William Cowper, The Task (1785), Book III, line 127.
- I dream of vampires. I dream of god. I dream of no vampires. I dream of no god. I dream of nothing. And yet that too is still my dream.
- Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves (2000), p. 544.
- Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than with the imagination being awake?
- Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations., as translated by Edward MacCurdy.
- Men will seem to see new destructions in the sky. The flames that fall from it will seem to rise in it and to fly from it with terror. They will hear every kind of animals speak in human language. They will instantaneously run in person in various parts of the world, without motion. They will see the greatest splendour in the midst of darkness. O! marvel of the human race! What madness has led you thus! You will speak with animals of every species and they with you in human speech. You will see yourself fall from great heights without any harm and torrents will accompany you, and will mingle with their rapid course.
- Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XX Humorous Writings, as translated by Edward MacCurdy.
- Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness; and this truth is in itself so excellent that, even when it dwells on humble and lowly matters, it is still infinitely above uncertainty and lies, disguised in high and lofty discourses; because in our minds, even if lying should be their fifth element, this does not prevent that the truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects, though not of wandering wits. But you who live in dreams are better pleased by the sophistical reasons and frauds of wits in great and uncertain things, than by those reasons which are certain and natural and not so far above us.
- Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations., as translated by Edward MacCurdy.
- Charlie: You're not getting caught. Not this time. [Pulls out one of Joker's bombs from his jacket.]] I found this blown out of the van. [Waves it in front of a now-terrified Joker] This is how it ends, Joker- no big schemes, no grand fight to the finish with the Dark Knight. Tomorrow, all the papers will say is that the great Joker was found blown to bits in an alley, alongside a 'miserable little nobody'! Heh, kinda funny. Ironic, really! See, I can destroy a man's dreams too! And that's really the only dream you've got, isn't it?!
- Batman: The Animated Series Joker's Favor Paul Dini
- Somehow, I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true. The special secret it seems to me is summarized in four C's. They are Curiosity, Courage, Confidence and Constancy. And the greatest of all is Confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.
- Walt Disney, as quoted in Perceive This! : How to Get Everything You Want Out of Life by Changing Your Perceptions (2004) by Kevin A. Martin, Ch. 9, No Bar Too High!, p. 64.
- All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them.
- Walt Disney, How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life (2004), Ch. 3 : Imagination Unlimited, p. 63; Unsourced variant: All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.
- Dreams, as we all know, are very queer things: some parts are presented with appalling vividness, with details worked up with the elaborate finish of jewellery, while others one gallops through, as it were, without noticing them at all, as, for instance, through space and time. Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams, what utterly incomprehensible things happen to it!
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), II.
- Yes, I dreamed a dream, my dream of the third of November. They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth? If once one has recognized the truth and seen it, you know that it is the truth and that there is no other and there cannot be, whether you are asleep or awake. Let it be a dream, so be it, but that real life of which you make so much I had meant to extinguish by suicide, and my dream, my dream — oh, it revealed to me a different life, renewed, grand and full of power!
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), II.
- In dreams you sometimes fall from a height, or are stabbed, or beaten, but you never feel pain unless, perhaps, you really bruise yourself against the bedstead, then you feel pain and almost always wake up from it. It was the same in my dream. I did not feel any pain, but it seemed as though with my shot everything within me was shaken and everything was suddenly dimmed, and it grew horribly black around me. I seemed to be blinded, and it benumbed, and I was lying on something hard, stretched on my back; I saw nothing, and could not make the slightest movement.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), III.
- Oh, everyone laughs in my face now, and assures me that one cannot dream of such details as I am telling now, that I only dreamed or felt one sensation that arose in my heart in delirium and made up the details myself when I woke up. And when I told them that perhaps it really was so, my God, how they shouted with laughter in my face, and what mirth I caused! Oh, yes, of course I was overcome by the mere sensation of my dream, and that was all that was preserved in my cruelly wounded heart; but the actual forms and images of my dream, that is, the very ones I really saw at the very time of my dream, were filled with such harmony, were so lovely and enchanting and were so actual, that on awakening I was, of course, incapable of clothing them in our poor language, so that they were bound to become blurred in my mind; and so perhaps I really was forced afterwards to make up the details, and so of course to distort them in my passionate desire to convey some at least of them as quickly as I could. But on the other hand, how can I help believing that it was all true? It was perhaps a thousand times brighter, happier and more joyful than I describe it. Granted that I dreamed it, yet it must have been real. You know, I will tell you a secret: perhaps it was not a dream at all!
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), IV.
- How it could come to pass I do not know, but I remember it clearly. The dream embraced thousands of years and left in me only a sense of the whole. I only know that I was the cause of their sin and downfall. Like a vile trichina, like a germ of the plague infecting whole kingdoms, so I contaminated all this earth, so happy and sinless before my coming. They learnt to lie, grew fond of lying, and discovered the charm of falsehood.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), V.
- A dream! What is a dream? And is not our life a dream? I will say more. Suppose that this paradise will never come to pass (that I understand), yet I shall go on preaching it. And yet how simple it is: in one day, in one hour everything could be arranged at once! The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted — you will find out at once how to arrange it all. And yet it's an old truth which has been told and retold a billion times — but it has not formed part of our lives! The consciousness of life is higher than life, the knowledge of the laws of happiness is higher than happiness — that is what one must contend against. And I shall. If only everyone wants it, it can be arranged at once.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), V.
- A dream! What is a dream? And is not our life a dream? I will say more. Suppose that this paradise will never come to pass (that I understand), yet I shall go on preaching it. And yet how simple it is: in one day, in one hour everything could be arranged at once! The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted — you will find out at once how to arrange it all. And yet it's an old truth which has been told and retold a billion times — but it has not formed part of our lives! The consciousness of life is higher than life, the knowledge of the laws of happiness is higher than happiness — that is what one must contend against. And I shall. If only everyone wants it, it can be arranged at once.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), V.
- You can live in your dreams, but only if you are worthy of them.
- Harlan Ellison , "Delusion for a Dragon Slayer" (1966).
- They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for a while, then closes
Within a dream.
- Ernest Dowson, "They are not long, the weeping and the laughter," stanza 2, The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson (1919), p. 22.
- Nenne dich nicht arm, weil deine Träume nicht in Erfüllung gegangen sind; wirklich arm ist nur der, der nicht geträumt hat.
- Don't call yourself poor, because your dreams are unfulfilled. Truly poor is only the one who has never dreamed.
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Fünfhundert Aphorismen, p. 69
- The seventeenth-century Iroquois, as described by the Jesuit missionaries, practiced a dream psychotherapy that was remarkably similar to Freud's discoveries two hundred years later. The Iroquois recognized the existence of an unconscious, the force of unconscious desires, the way in which the conscious mind attempts to repress unpleasant thoughts, the emergence of unpleasant thoughts in dreams, and the mental and physical (psychosomatic) illnesses that may be caused by the frustration of unconscious desires. The Iroquois knew that their dreams did not deal in facts but rather in symbols. ...And one of the techniques employed by the Iroquois seers to uncover the latent meanings behind a dream was free association... The Iroquois faith in dreams... is only somewhat diminished after more than three hundred years. ...The conclusions are inevitable: Had Freud not discovered psychotherapy, then someone else would have.
- Peter Farb, Man's Rise to Civilization (1968)
- You have to believe we are magic, nothin' can stand in our way
You have to believe we are magic, don't let your aim ever stray
And if all your hopes survive, destiny will arrive
I'll bring all your dreams alive, for you.
- John Farrar in "Magic", from the film Xanadu (1980).
- People say that your dreams are the only things that save ya... Come on baby in our dreams, we can live our misbehaviors
- Arcade Fire, "Rebellion (Lies)", Funeral (2004).
- Pour accomplir de grandes choses il ne suffit pas d'agir il faut rêver; il ne suffit pas de calculer, il faut croire.
- To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
- Variant: To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
- Anatole France, Discours de réception, Séance De L'académie Française (introductory speech at a session of the French Academy), 24th December 1896, on Ferdinand de Lesseps' work on the Suez Canal.
- The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.
- The Interpretation of Dreams (1900), from The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, translated by James Strachey.
- At any rate the interpretation of dreams is the via regia to a knowledge of the unconscious in psychic life.
- Alternate translation by Abraham Arden Brill, p. 483. Freud did use the Latin phrase via regia in the original as opposed to translating it into the German of the surrounding text.
- Sigmund Freud "Royal road" or via regia is an allusion to a statement attributed to Euclid.
- Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.
- Erich Fromm, as quoted in The New York Times (5 January 1964).
- Science's self-assumed responsibility has been self-limited to disclosure to society only of the separate, supposedly physical (because separately weighable) atomic component isolations data. Synergetic integrity would require the scientists to announce that in reality what had been identified heretofore as physical is entirely metaphysical—because synergetically weightless. Metaphysical has been science's designation for all weightless phenomena such as thought. But science has made no experimental finding of any phenomena that can be described as a solid, or as continuous, or as a straight surface plane, or as a straight line, or as infinite anything. We are now synergetically forced to conclude that all phenomena are metaphysical; wherefore, as many have long suspected—like it or not—"life is but a dream".
- Buckminster Fuller, Synergetics (Introduction: The Wellspring of Reality) 1975
- Did I dream this belief
Or did I believe this dream?
Now I will find relief
I grieve
- Peter Gabriel I Grieve
- Always believe in your dreams, because if you don't, you'll still have hope.
- Mahatma Gandhi Young India (23 March 1924).
- Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge
- Paul Gauguin, Avant et Après (1903), from Paul Gauguin's Intimate Journals, trans. (1923) Van Wyck Brooks [Dover, 1997, ISBN 0-486-29441-2], p. 2.
- Dreams, something like prophecy, are the offspring of imaginations and comparisons which we may form whilst awake.
- Tales and Maxims from the Midrash by Rev. Samuel Rapaport, Genesis Rabbah 17, (1907), p. 69
- Dreams neither injure nor benefit: they are vain.
- Ibid., Genesis Rabbah 68, p.83
- A dream towards morning is likely to be fulfilled.
- Ibid., Genesis Rabbah 89, p.86
- When a dream is born in you
With a sudden clamorous pain,
When you know the dream is true
And lovely, with no flaw nor stain,
O then, be careful, or with sudden clutch
You'll hurt the delicate thing you prize so much.
- Robert Graves, Fairies and Fusiliers (1917), "A Pinch of Salt".
- The pain was maddening. You should pray to God when you're dying, if you can pray when you're in agony. In my dream I didn't pray to God, I thought of Roger and how dearly I loved him. The pain of those wicked flames was not half so bad as the pain I felt when I knew he was dead. I felt suddenly glad to be dying. I didn't know when you were burnt to death you'd bleed. I thought the blood would all dry up in the terrible heat. But I was bleeding heavily. The blood was dripping and hissing in the flames. I wished I had enough blood to put the flames out. The worst part was my eyes. I hate the thought of gong blind. It's bad enough when I'm awake but in dreams you can't shake the thoughts away. They remain. In this dream I was going blind. I tried to close my eyelids but I couldn't. They must have been burnt off, and now those flames were going to pluck my eyes out with their evil fingers, I didn't want to go blind. The flames weren't so cruel after all. They began to feel cold. Icy cold. It occurred to me that I wasn't burning to death but freezing to death.
- Arthur Guirdham in The Cathars and Reincarnation, p. 89.
- Dream and deed are not as different as many think. All the deeds of men are dreams at first, and become dreams in the end.
- Theodor Herzl as quoted in The Israelis : Founders and Sons (1971) by Amos Elon, p. 57
- I differ from Freud in that I think that most dreams are neither obscure nor bowdlerized, but rather that they are transparent and unedited. They reveal clearly meaningful undisguised and often highly conflictual themes worthy of note by the dreamer (and any interpretive assistant). My position echoes Jung's notion of dreams as transparently meaningful and does away with any distinction between manifest and latent content.
- J. Allan Hobson, in The Dreaming Brain : How the brain creates both the sense and nonsense of dreams (1988)
- It is important to state here -- though evidence will be considered in detail later on -- that all three women have either had "dreams" or normal recollections of having been shown, at later times, tiny offspring whose appearance suggests they are something other than completely human . . . that they are in fact hybrids, partly human and partly what we must call, for want of a better term, alien. it is unthinkable and unbelievable -- yet the evidence points in that direction. An ongoing and systematic breeding experiment must be considered one of the central purposes of UFO abductions.
- Budd Hopkins, in Intruders: The Incredible Visitations at Copley Woods , p. 130
- Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
- Langston Hughes, in "Dreams" in the anthology Golden Slippers : An Anthology of Negro Poetry for Young Readers (1941), edited by Arna Bontemps.
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore —
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over —
like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?
- Langston Hughes, in "Harlem" in Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951).
- Joined by his friend Zero, Mega Man X gazes out over the sea. Sigma has once again been destroyed, but X wonders if the fighting will truly end. Was Dr. Light's dream of a world in which Reploids and humans lived together in peace merely a dream? The price of peace is often high, X thinks to himself. Who or what must be sacrificed for it to become a reality? And when the time comes, will he be able to do it? The future holds the answers or...
- Keiji Inafune, Sho Tsuge and Yoshihisa Tsuda Mega Man X2
- I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past, — so good night!
- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to John Adams (1 August 1816).
- ALL THIS IS A DREAM. Still examine it by a few experiments. Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature; and in such things as these experiment is the best test of such consistency.
- Michael Faraday, in his laboratory journal entry #10,040 (19 March 1849); published in The Life and Letters of Faraday (1870) Vol. II, edited by Henry Bence Jones, p. 253. This has sometimes been quoted partially as "Nothing is too wonderful to be true".
- The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.
- Carl Jung, The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man (1934).
- We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.
- Carl Jung, The Symbolic Life (1953); also in Man and His Symbols (1964).
- Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.
- One of the most important ways of understanding the unconscious—indeed, as Freud saw it, the royal road to discovering the nature of its contents—is the dream.
- Morton Kelsey, Myth, History & Faith: The Mysteries of Christian Myth & Imagination (1974) Ch.VII
- I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal." … I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.
- Martin Luther King, Jr., "I Have a Dream," speech at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C. (August 28, 1963); reported in the Congressional Record (April 18, 1968), vol. 114, p. 9165.
- I chose to dream and act on my dreams, following the example that my father taught. To live with this dream may be crazy, it may be foolish, but to live without it would be a nightmare.
- Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself.
- Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984). as translated by Michael Henry Heim; Part Two: Soul and Body, p. 59.
- Yes, you can kill the dreamer. Absolutely, you can kill the dreamer. But you cannot kill the dream.
- Samuel Kyles, as quoted in "Samuel Billy Kyles, Witness to King's Last Moments, Dies at 81" (30 April 2016), by Sam Roberts, The New York Times
- The dream on the pillow,
That flits with the day,
The leaf of the willow
A breath wears away;
The dust on the blossom,
The spray on the sea;
Ay,—ask thine own bosom—
Are emblems of thee.
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon, The London Literary Gazette (29th March 1823), 'Song - The dream on the pillow'
- I dreamed a dream, that I had flung a chain
Of roses around Love, — I woke, and found
I had chained Sorrow.
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Literary Souvenir, 1826 (1825), 'The Forsaken'
- Dream, dream, let me dream,
Wherefore should I waken,
Sleep is as a fairy land
Not yet by spells forsaken.
Break not on the gentle charm
In which night has bound me,
Wherefore, wherefore should I wake
To the cold world around me ?
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon, The Casket, 1829, 'Song'
- All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did.
- T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922).
- Some dreams tell us what we wish to believe. Some dreams tell us what we fear. Some dreams are of what we know though we may not know we knew it. The rarest dream is the dream that tells us what we did not know.
- Ursula K. Le Guin, Social Dreaming of the Frin in David G. Hartwell (ed.) Year's Best Fantasy 3, p. 172 (Originally published at The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction October/November 2002)
- "Dreams mean nothing," he said coldly. "They are unreal."
"They're as real as anything else," she shot back at him. "And they merely mean conscience."
- Fritz Leiber, Gather, Darkness! (1950), Chapter 14
Imagine there's no countries,
It isn't hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
No religion too,
Imagine all the people
living life in peace...
You may say I'm a dreamer,
but I'm not the only one,
I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will be as one.
- John Lennon, in Imagine
- "It is new, indeed, for I made it last night in a dream of strange cities; and dreams are older than brooding Tyre, or the contemplative Sphinx, or garden-girdled Babylon."
- H. P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu, Chapter 1
- The king lay down not to sleep, he lay down to dream.
- Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave, Ur III Period (21st century BCE).[1]
- To the liar it talks in lies, to the truthful it speaks truth. It can make one man happy, it can make another man sing, but it is the closed tablet-basket of the gods. It is the beautiful bedchamber of Ninlil, it is the counsellor of Inana. The multiplier of mankind, the voice of one not alive.
- Lugalbanda in the Mountain Cave, Ur III Period (21st century BCE).[2]
- There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.
- Archibald MacLeish, "We Have Purpose … We All Know It", Life (May 30, 1960), p. 93. This was one of a series of essays in Life magazine and The New York Times on "The National Purpose."
- The value of dreams, like … divinations, is not that they give a specific answer, but that they open up new areas of psychic reality, shake us out of our customary ruts, and throw light on a new segment of our lives. Thus the sayings of the shrine, like dreams, were not to be received passively; the recipients had to "live" themselves into the message.
- Rollo May, The Courage to Create (1975), Ch. 5 : The Delphic Oracle as Therapist, p. 106.
- Whereas Freud was for the most part concerned with the morbid effects of unconscious repression, Jung was more interested in the manifestations of unconscious expression, first in the dream and eventually in all the more orderly products of religion and art and morals.
- Lewis Mumford in Interpretations and Forecasts (1967)
- Professor X's epitaph: Any dream worth having is a dream worth fighting for.
- Fabian Nicieza, Amazing X-Men Vol 1 #3 (May, 1995) [3]
- We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
- Variants: We are near waking when we dream that we dream. As quoted by Edgar Allan Poe in "A Tale of the Ragged Mountains" (1844), adapted from Fragments from German Prose Writers (1841) by Sarah Austin We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
- Novalis as quoted in the essay "Novalis" (1829) by Thomas Carlyle
- "You are walking on the earth as in a dream; Our world is a dream within a dream" Paramahansa Yogananda, The Divine Romance,1986
- A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.
- Cesare Pavese, This Business of Living, 1940-07-22
- Tonight, may I get so drunk in love that
I do not see any dreams!
- The dream too thinks twice,
gets filtered to go soft
to be seated on children's eyes.
- I salute my desires with a bow.,
were it not for them to come and play
mind would be empty just like me.
- They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
- Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora (1841).
- It is the quality and intensity of the dream only which raises men above the biological norm; and it is fidelity to the dream which differentiates the exceptional figure, the man of heroic stature, from the muddling, aimless mediocrities about him. What the dream is, matters not at all — it may be a dream of sainthood, kingship, love, art, asceticism or sensual pleasure — so long as it is fully expressed with all the resources of self.
- Burton Rascoe, in the Introduction to Chivalry (1921) by James Branch Cabell, later published in Prometheans : Ancient and Modern (1933), p. 279.
- So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
- Christopher Reeve, Speech at the Democratic National Convention (26 August 1996).
- Still speaking of dreams, Seth says: "Energy projected into any kind of construction, psychic or physical, cannot be recalled, but must follow the laws of the particular form into which it has been for the moment molded. Therefore, when the dreamer contracts his multi-realistic objects backward, ending for himself the dream he has constructed, he ends it for himself only. The reality of the dream continues." The energy, as Seth explains it, can be transformed, but not annihilated.
- Jane Roberts in The Seth Material, p. 200-201.
- It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.
- Man is essentially a dreamer, wakened sometimes for a moment by some peculiarly obtrusive element in the outer world, but lapsing again quickly into the happy somnolence of imagination. Freud has shown how largely our dreams at night are the pictured fulfilment of our wishes; he has, with an equal measure of truth, said the same of day-dreams; and he might have included the day-dreams which we call beliefs.
- Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928), Ch. 2: Dreams and Facts
- The republic is a dream
Nothing happens unless first a dream.
- Carl Sandburg, "Washington Monument by Night," stanza 4, in The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg, rev. and expanded ed. (1970), p. 282. Ronald Reagan quoted this before a joint session of Congress (April 28, 1981), and added: "As Carl Sandburg said, all we need to begin with is a dream that we can do better than before. All we need to have is faith, and that dream will come true. All we need to do is act, and the time for action is now". Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981, p. 394.
- It may be that "dreaming," too, should be understood this way, as sustaining the objectifying power of people during hours when they are cut off from the natural source of objects, so that they do not during sleep drown in their own corporeal engulfment. That is, the particular content of dreams (now terrifying, now benign; now full of uncanny secret intelligence about the sleeper, now ignorant, arbitrary, and nonsensical) is itself insignificant beside the overall fact of the dreaming itself, the emergency work of the imagination to provide an object - this object, that object, any object - to sustain and to exercise the capacity for self-objectification during the sleep-filled hours of sweet and dangerous bodily absorption.
- Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World (1985)
- But only in their dreams can men be truly free. 'Twas always thus, and always thus will be.
- Tom Schulman, Dead Poets Society (1989), expressed by the character John Keating
- I think the destiny of all men is not to sit in the rubble of their own making but to reach out for an ultimate perfection which is to be had. At the moment, it is a dream. But as of the moment we clasp hands with our neighbor, we build the first span to bridge the gap between the young and the old. At this hour, it's a wish. But we have it within our power to make it a reality. If you want to prove that God is not dead, first prove that man is alive.
- Rod Serling, speech at Moorpark College, Moorpark, California (3 December 1968)[specific citation needed]
- It's simply a national acknowledgement that in any kind of priority, the needs of human beings must come first. Poverty is here and now. Hunger is here and now. Racial tension is here and now. Pollution is here and now. These are the things that scream for a response. And if we don't listen to that scream - and if we don't respond to it - we may well wind up sitting amidst our own rubble, looking for the truck that hit us - or the bomb that pulverized us. Get the license number of whatever it was that destroyed the dream. And I think we will find that the vehicle was registered in our own name.
- Rod Serling, Commencement Address at the University of Southern California; March 17, 1970
- I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.
- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (c. 1595).
- To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil..."
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet (c. 1599), Act 3, sc. 1.
- We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
- William Shakespeare, The Tempest (c. 1603 - 1612).
- There are a kind of men so loose of soul,
That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs.
- William Shakespeare, Othello (1603–4), Act III, scene iii.
- Is a dream a lie if it don't come true
Or is it something worse?
- Bruce Springsteen, "The River", from The River (1980)
- It is surely nobler to be a victim of the most noble dream than to profit from a sordid reality and to wallow in it. Dream is akin to aspiration. And aspiration is a kind of divination of an enigmatic vision. And an enigmatic vision in the emphatic sense is the perception of the ultimate mystery, of the truth of the ultimate mystery.
- Leo Strauss, Commenting upon the Aleinu prayer, in "Why We Remain Jews" (1962).
- The greatest man of action is he who is the greatest, and a life-long, dreamer. For in him the dreamer is fortified against destruction by a far-seeing eye, a virile mind, a strong will, a robust courage.
And so has perished the kindly dreamer — on the cross or in the garret.
A democracy should not let its dreamers perish. They are its life, its guaranty against decay.
- Louis Sullivan, Education (1902), First read before the Architectural League of America, Toronto (1902), later published in Kindergarten Chats (revised 1918) and Other Writings (1947).
- You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"
- George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah, act I, in Selected Plays with Prefaces (1949), vol. 2, p. 7. The serpent says these words to Eve. John F. Kennedy quoted this line in his address to the Irish Parliament, Dublin (June 28, 1963); Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963, p. 537. Robert F. Kennedy used a similar quotation as a theme of his 1968 campaign for the presidential nomination: "Some men see things as they are and say, why; I dream things that never were and say, why not." Ted Kennedy quoted this variation in delivering Robert F. Kennedy's eulogy in 1968; reported in The New York Times (June 9, 1968), p. 56.
- Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
- Henry David Thoreau, in "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers" (1849).
- If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854), chapter 18, p. 427.
- Postremo nemo aegrotus quidquam somniat tam infandum, quod non aliquis dicat philosophus.
- No sick man's monstrous dream can be so wild that some philosopher won't say it's true.
- Marcus Terentius Varro Eumenides, fragment 6, from Saturae Menippeae; translation from J. Wight Duff Roman Satire: Its Outlook on Social Life (Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1964) p. 90.
- The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all.
- Swami Vivekananda, in a letter from New York to Mary Hale (10 February 1896), in Complete Works, 5.100.
- As I became accustomed to keeping dream records, the dreams themselves got "better," with more direct information and precognitive "hits."
- Susan M. Watkins, Dreaming Myself, Dreaming A Town, p. 36.
- A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
- Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist (1891).
- No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is a blind thing dependent on external influences, and moved by an impulse of whose nature it is unconscious. It is a thing incomplete in its essence, because limited by accident, and ignorant of its direction, being always at variance with its aim. Its basis is the lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
- Oscar Wilde, The Major Works Oxford University Press, 2000, p. 256
- It is the first duty of a gentleman to dream.
- Oscar Wilde, Epigrams of Oscar Wilde Wordsworth Editions, 2001, p. 91
- Taylor: I'm a seeker, too. But my dreams aren't like yours. I can't help thinking that somewhere in the universe there has to be something better than man. Has to be.
- Planet of the Apes (1968 film) by Michael Wilson and Rod Serling
- We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.
- Woodrow Wilson, as quoted by Thomas A. Bruno in Take your dreams and Run (South Plainfield: Bridge, 1984), p. 2-3. Source: Dr. Preston Williams (2002): By the Way - A Snapshot Diagnosis of the Inner-City Dilemma, p. 38-39. Xulun Press, Fairfax, Virginia, USA.
- I have spread my dreams beneath your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
- William Butler Yeats in "He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven".
- In dreams begin responsibilities.
- William Butler Yeats, epigram to the book Responsibilities (1914), later used as the title of the story "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" (1937) by Delmore Schwartz.
- Things we do and things we see shortly before we fall asleep are most apt to influence our dreams.
- W.W. Young Alice in Wonderland (1915 film)
- Once upon a time, I, Chuang Chou, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was Chou. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man. Between a man and a butterfly there is necessarily a distinction. The transition is called the transformation of material things.
- As translated by Lin Yutang; Alternate translations:
Once Zhuang Zhou dreamed he was a butterfly, a fluttering butterfly. What fun he had, doing as he pleased! He did not know he was Zhou. Suddenly he woke up and found himself to be Zhou. He did not know whether Zhou had dreamed he was a butterfly or a butterfly had dreamed he was Zhou. Between Zhou and the butterfly there must be some distinction. This is what is meant by the transformation of things.
One night, Zhuangzi dreamed of being a butterfly — a happy butterfly, showing off and doing things as he pleased, unaware of being Zhuangzi. Suddenly he awoke, drowsily, Zhuangzi again. And he could not tell whether it was Zhuangzi who had dreamt the butterfly or the butterfly dreaming Zhuangzi. But there must be some difference between them! This is called 'the transformation of things'.
- Zhuangzi, Zhuangzi.
- As translated by Lin Yutang; Alternate translations:
- How do I know that enjoying life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death we are not like people who got lost in early childhood and do not know the way home? Lady Li was the child of a border guard in Ai. When first captured by the state of Jin, she wept so much her clothes were soaked. But after she entered the palace, shared the king's bed, and dined on the finest meats, she regretted her tears. How do I know that the dead do not regret their previous longing for life? One who dreams of drinking wine may in the morning weep; one who dreams weeping may in the morning go out to hunt. During our dreams we do not know we are dreaming. We may even dream of interpreting a dream. Only on waking do we know it was a dream. Only after the great awakening will we realize that this is the great dream. And yet fools think they are awake, presuming to know that they are rulers or herdsmen. How dense! You and Confucius are both dreaming, and I who say you are a dream am also a dream. Such is my tale. It will probably be called preposterous, but after ten thousand generations there may be a great sage who will be able to explain it, a trivial interval equivalent to the passage from morning to night.
- Zhuangzi, Zhuangzi
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical QuotationsEdit
- Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 201-04.
- When to soft Sleep we give ourselves away,
And in a dream as in a fairy bark
Drift on and on through the enchanted dark
To purple daybreak—little thought we pay
To that sweet bitter world we know by day.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Sonnet, Sleep.
- If there were dreams to sell,
Merry and sad to tell,
And the crier rung his bell,
What would you buy?
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Dream-Pedlary.
- "Come to me, darling; I'm lonely without thee;
Daytime and nighttime I'm dreaming about thee."
- Joseph Brenan, The Exile To His Wife.
- Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate,
For morning dreams, as poets tell, are true.
- Michael Bruce, Elegy on Spring.
- I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls,
With vassals and serfs at my side.
- Alfred Bunn, Song from Bohemian Girl.
- I had a dream, which was not all a dream.
- Lord Byron, Darkness.
- And dreams in their development have breath,
And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy;
They have a weight upon our waking thoughts,
They take a weight from off our waking toils,
They do divide our being.
- Lord Byron, The Dream, Stanza 1.
- A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.
- Lord Byron, The Dream, Stanza 3.
- The fisher droppeth his net in the stream,
And a hundred streams are the same as one;
And the maiden dreameth her love-lit dream;
And what is it all, when all is done?
The net of the fisher the burden breaks,
And always the dreaming the dreamer wakes.
- Alice Cary, Lover's Diary.
- Again let us dream where the land lies sunny
And live, like the bees, on our hearts' old honey,
Away from the world that slaves for money—
Come, journey the way with me.
- Madison Cawein, Song of the Road.
- Like the dreams,
Children of night, of indigestion bred.
- Charles Churchill, The Candidate, line 784.
- My eyes make pictures, when they are shut.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, A Day Dream.
- And so, his senses gradually wrapt
In a half sleep, he dreams of better worlds,
And dreaming hears thee still, O singing lark;
That singest like an angel in the clouds.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Fears in Solitude, line 25.
- Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes;
When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes.
- John Dryden, Fables, The Cock and the Fox, line 325.
- In blissful dream, in silent night,
There came to me, with magic might,
With magic might, my own sweet love,
Into my little room above.
- Heinrich Heine, Youthful Sorrows, Part VI, Stanza 1.
- Fly, dotard, fly!
With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
- Homer, The Odyssey, Book II, line 207. Pope's translation.
- Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams,
Unnatural and full of contradictions;
Yet others of our most romantic schemes
Are something more than fictions.
- Thomas Hood, The Haunted House, Part I.
- And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste
Shall others continue, but never complete.
For none upon earth can achieve his scheme;
The best as the worst are futile here:
We wake at the self-same point of the dream,—
All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.
- Victor Hugo, Early Love Revisited.
- Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!)
Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace.
- Leigh Hunt, Abou Ben Adhem.
- Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.
- Joel, II. 28.
- There's a long, long trail a-winding
Into the land of my dreams,
Where the nightingales are singing
And a white moon beams;
There's a long, long night of waiting
Until my dreams all come true,
Till the day when I'll be going down that
Long, long trail with you.
- Stoddard King, There's a Long, Long Trail. (Popular in the Great War).
- Ever of thee I'm fondly dreaming,
Thy gentle voice my spirit can cheer.
- George Linley, Ever of Thee.
- 'Twas but a dream,—let it pass,—let it vanish like so many others!
What I thought was a flower is only a weed, and is worthless.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858), Part VII.
- Is this is a dream? O, if it be a dream,
Let me sleep on, and do not wake me yet!
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Spanish Student (1843), Act III, scene 5.
- For dhrames always go by conthraries, my dear.
- Samuel Lover, Rory O'More, Oliver Goldsmith, Citizen of the World, No. 46.
- Ground not upon dreams, you know they are ever contrary.
- Thomas Middleton, The Family of Love (1602-07), Act IV, scene 3.
- I believe it to be true that Dreams are the true Interpreters of our Inclinations; but there is Art required to sort and understand them.
- Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Book III, Chapter XIII.
- One of those passing rainbow dreams,
Half light, half shade, which fancy's beams
Paint on the fleeting mists that roll,
In trance or slumber, round the soul!
- Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh (1817), Fire Worshippers, Stanza 54.
- Oh! that a dream so sweet, so long enjoy'd,
Should be so sadly, cruelly destroy'd!
- Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh (1817), Veiled Prophet of Khorassan, Stanza 62.
- A thousand creeds and battle cries,
A thousand warring social schemes,
A thousand new moralities
And twenty thousand, thousand dreams.
- Alfred Noyes, Forward.
- I am weary of planning and toiling
In the crowded hives of men;
Heart weary of building and spoiling
And spoiling and building again;
And I long for the dear old river
Where I dreamed my youth away;
For a dreamer lives forever,
And a toiler dies in a day.
- John Boyle O'Reilly, Cry of the Dreamer.
- Namque sub Aurora jam dormitante lucerna Somnia quo cerni tempore vera solent.
- Those dreams are true which we have in the morning, as the lamp begins to flicker.
- Ovid, Epistles, XIX. Hero Leandro. 195.
- Dreams, which, beneath the hov'ring shades of night,
Sport with the ever-restless minds of men,
Descend not from the gods. Each busy brain
Creates its own.
- Thomas Love Peacock, Dreams, From Petronius Arbiter.
- What was your dream?
It seemed to me that a woman in white raiment, graceful and fair to look upon, came towards me and calling me by name said:
On the third day, Socrates, thou shall reach the coast of fertile Phthia.
- Plato, Crito.
- That holy dream—that holy dream,
While all the world were chiding,
Hath cheered me as a lovely beam
A lonely spirit guiding.
- Edgar Allen Poe, A Dream, Stanza 3.
- You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
- Edgar Allen Poe, "A Dream Within a Dream" (1849).
- O God! Can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
- Edgar Allen Poe, "A Dream Within A Dream" (1849).
- Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
- Edgar Allen Poe, The Raven (1844), Stanza 5.
- Yet eat in dreams, the custard of the day.
- Alexander Pope, The Dunciad (1728; 1735; 1743), Book I, line 92.
- Till their own dreams at length deceive 'em
And oft repeating, they believe 'em.
- Matthew Prior, Alma (1718), Canto III, line 13.
- As a dream when one awaketh.
- Psalms. LXXIII. 20.
- This morn, as sleeping in my bed I lay,
I dreamt (and morning dreams come true they say).
- W. B. Rhodes, Bombastes Furioso. Post medium noctean bisus, quum comnia vera. Horace, Satires, Book I. Sat. 10, line 33. Tibullus, Elegy, Book III. 4.
- We must discipline ourselves to convert dreams into plans, and plans into goals, and goals into those small daily activities that will lead us, one sure step at a time, toward a better future.
- Jim Rohn, Five Major Pieces To the Life Puzzle (1991).
- O Brethren, weep to-day,
The silent God hath quenched my Torch's ray,
And the vain dream hath flown.
- Friedrich Schiller, Resignation. Bowring's translation.
- Some must delve when the dawn is nigh;
Some must toil when the noonday beams;
But when night comes, and the soft winds sigh,
Every man is a King of Dreams.
- Clinton Scollard, King of Dreams.
- I'll dream no more—by manly mind
Not even in sleep is well resigned.
My midnight orisons said o'er,
I'll turn to rest and dream no more.
- Walter Scott, Lady of the Lake (1810), Canto I, Stanza 35.
- Thou hast beat me out
Twelve several times, and I have nightly since
Dreamt of encounters 'twixt thyself and me.
- William Shakespeare, Coriolanus (c. 1607-08), Act IV, scene 5, line 127.
- There is some ill a-brewing towards my rest,
For I did dream of money-bags to-night.
- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (late 1590s), Act II, scene 5, line 17.
- I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was.
- William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (c. 1595-96), Act IV, scene 1, line 211.
- This is the rarest dream that e'er dull sleep
Did mock sad fools withal.
- William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre (c. 1607-08), Act V, scene 1, line 164.
- Oh! I have pass'd a miserable night,
So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams,
That, as I am a Christian faithful man,
I would not spend another such a night,
Though 'twere to buy a world of happy days.
- William Shakespeare, Richard III (c. 1591), Act I, scene 4, line 2.
- For never yet one hour in his bed
Have I enjoyed the golden dew of sleep,
But have been waked by his timorous dreams.
- William Shakespeare, Richard III (c. 1591), Act IV, scene 1, line 83.
- I talk of dreams,
Which are the children of an idle brain,
Begot of nothing but vain fantasy,
Which is as thin of substance as the air
And more inconstant than the wind.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (1597), Act I, scene 4, line 96.
- Sometime she driveth o'er a soldier's neck,
And then dreams he of cutting foreign throats,
Of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades,
Of healths five-fathom deep.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (1597), Act I, scene 4, line 82.
- If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep,
My dreams presage some joyful news at hand:
My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne;
And all this day an unaccustom'd spirit
Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (1597), Act V, scene 1, line 1.
- We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
- William Shakespeare, The Tempest (c. 1610-1612), Act IV, scene 1, line 156.
- Ah, the strange, sweet, lonely delight
Of the Valleys of Dream.
- Fiona McLeod, Dream Fantasy.
- Across the silent stream
Where the dream-shadows go,
From the dim blue Hill of Dream
I have heard the west wind blow.
- Fiona McLeod, From the Hills of Dream.
- In an ocean of dreams without a sound.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Sensitive Plant, Part I, Stanza 26.
- Those dreams, that on the silent night intrude,
And with false flitting shades our minds delude,
Jove never sends us downward from the skies;
Nor can they from infernal mansions rise;
But are all mere productions of the brain,
And fools consult interpreters in vain.
- Jonathan Swift, On Dreams.
- In the world of dreams, I have chosen my part.
To sleep for a season and hear no word
Of true love's truth or of light love's art,
Only the song of a secret bird.
- Algernon Charles Swinburne, A Ballad of Dreamland. Envoi.
- The dream
Dreamed by a happy man, when the dark East,
Unseen, is brightening to his bridal morn.
- Alfred Tennyson, The Gardener's Daughter, line 71.
- Seeing, I saw not, hearing not, I heard.
Tho', if I saw not, yet they told me all
So often that I spake as having seen.
- Alfred Tennyson, The Princess (1847), VI, line 3.
- Like glimpses of forgotten dreams.
- Alfred Tennyson, The Two Voices (1832; 1842), Stanza CXXVII.
- The chambers in the house of dreams
Are fed with so divine an air,
That Time's hoar wings grow young therein,
And they who walk there are most fair.
- Francis Thompson, Dream Tryst, Stanza 3.
- There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a Dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And You are but a Thought — a vagrant Thought, a useless Thought, a homeless Thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities.
- And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams
Call to the soul when man doth sleep.
So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted dreams,
And into glory peep.
- Henry Vaughan, Ascension Hymn.
- Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream.
- William Wordsworth, Hart-Leap Well, Part II, Stanza 9.
- People always say that kind of stuff in dreams, what's the point? I'm probably gonna wake up any minute.


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STOCKTON - On Thanksgiving Day, Yolanda Flores knows why she gives thanks.
STOCKTON - On Thanksgiving Day, Yolanda Flores knows why she gives thanks.
That's because for the last 17 years she starts the holiday by volunteering at St. Mary's Dining Room, helping bring a special, holiday meal to those who are less fortunate.
She doesn't come alone, either. It's a family tradition to start the day volunteering at the dining room. Over the years, Flores has brought her brothers, sisters, daughters and a half dozen nieces and nephews with her on Thanksgiving morning. Her oldest daughter drives out from San Francisco the night before to take part. Flores' 15-year-old daughter is a 10-year veteran of volunteer work.
The next generation will join the ranks in two years, said Flores, dividing her attention between a Record reporter and Ryder Hart, her 3-year-old grandson, during a recent interview while volunteers readied the dining room for the daily meal. Salma Flores, the 15-year-old daughter, was in the kitchen.
St. Mary's doesn't just serve meals on Thanksgiving Day, and it could always use more help from volunteers throughout the year, Yolanda Flores said.
Flores moved to Stockton as a teenager with her family in 1976. Today, the 53-year-old is a self-employed tax preparer.
She urges others to give volunteering a try, saying getting involved is one way to make Stockton a better place. And it doesn't stop there.
"Do it for your community, because our community needs it. Do it for yourself. And do it for your own kids. Teach your kids how lucky they are to have parents, to have a house, to have a family. To be able to spend Thanksgiving with your family when there are tons and tons of kids that can't," she said. "Do it and you will see. It will make you a better person."
In the past 17 years, Flores volunteered with members of her family at 15 Thanksgiving Day meals at St. Mary's.
Question: Describe how your typical Thanksgiving Day starts.
Answer: We usually get up around 6 o'clock in the morning and we're here by 7 ... We go outside and start giving hot chocolate and pastries to everybody, (because) there's already a line there. Around 10:30 we finish up outside ... We come in and take charge of the pastry department, so when lunch starts they can start passing the pastries out. Then I go back (in the kitchen) and start helping serving the food.
Q: Why do you do this?
A: It's so many things. I just feel I'm so blessed ... I have a family, I have a home, I have a hot meal to come home to every year. I'm so blessed. I just feel like I have to give something back. I want to make somebody smile. I want to make somebody feel important, at least for one day, like somebody cares about them.
Q: What do you want your family to learn by doing this?
A: First is that we're so blessed ... And second, is that you always have to be grateful for what you have. And the only way to show that you're grateful is by helping other people ... who need your help and need your smile. That's what I want my kids to learn, is that you have to be grateful for what you have. And in order to receive, you have to give.
Q: Tell me about your first Thanksgiving here?
A: It was shocking, because as soon as you turn into the street, it's a different side of town. ... Just to come here to see all these people - old, young, families - it's just shocking, but on the other hand you feel great that you're able to help them.
Q: Do you have an experience here that stands out?
A: I was serving food, and there was this little girl. She was probably, like, five. She was sitting at a table and they were picking up plates. They were going to pick her plate up and she started crying ... I asked her (if she was full), and she said, "Yeah. But I want to take it home because I have my grandpa over there who couldn't come. And I want to take him some food to eat." And I said I'll give you a plate for your grandpa. And she said: "Can I take this, too, so I can have something to eat before I go to bed.
Q: How do the people let you know that they're thankful?
A: The way they show they're thankful, they always tell you "God bless you" ... That day, I get a thousand God-bless-yous in that four or five hours that I'm here. And you can tell by their faces how happy they are to get something to eat and something to take home. That makes my day.
Q: Have you ever experienced struggling during Thanksgiving? Do you know what it's like to go without?
A: When we first came to Stockton it wasn't easy. When I came to Stockton, I was 15 years old and I only had the clothes I had on. And that's all I had ... Just imagine how lucky I am, now.
Q: You said you work with networking group Comerciantes Unidos (United Merchants) before the big meal, too. What else do you do before Thanksgiving?
A: My Thanksgiving Day here starts the day before ... (St. Mary's) gives me a list of everything they need to finish up the dinner ... I go shopping the day before for everything they need and bring it in ... Comerciantes Unidos is the one that covers the bill ... I only do the shopping and I love to do the shopping.
Q: When you finish volunteering, do you go home and cook a Thanksgiving meal for the family?
A: I used to. I used to leave here around noon or 12:30 at the latest and finish up doing my dinner, but we would eat dinner around 6 o'clock. And then the family said it was kind of late to do dinner. I told them, I can't do it earlier, somebody will have to take over ... My oldest brother and my sister decided to take turns, and they've been doing it for the past 7 or 8 years ... and we only take a plate.
Q: Does volunteering leave you enough time to watch football on Thanksgiving?
A: I grew up with boys. I like football. But I don't have the time. Not on that day.
Contact reporter Zachary K. Johnson at (209) 546-8258 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/johnsonblog.


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VALLEYFORD, Wash. — In a world of red and green tractors, one little pink tractor is striking a chord.
Northwest Farm Credit Services and AgDirect have partnered to use the pink tractor to raise awareness of breast cancer.
Farm Credit takes the tractor to community events and breast cancer awareness races around the region, including Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana.
"Every single person, I swear, took a picture in front of that tractor — it's like a magnet, people are drawn to it," said Jennifer Rohrer, public relations and communications coordinator for Northwest Farm Credit. "We get more people coming up to us, telling their story. Everyone seems to know someone who farmed, or their grandpa farmed, or someone farmed."
Michal Armstrong, former chief financial officer of the credit service, died of breast cancer 10 years ago. The company wanted to showcase its appreciation for breast cancer awareness, Rohrer said.
"It's going to affect farmers and ranchers," she said. "Every single person we know has been affected in some way, shape or form by breast cancer specifically. We're there for them, just like we are when it comes to helping out on the farm."
Diane Mock, senior credit underwriter for Farm Credit, was diagnosed with breast cancer in May 2013. After a double mastectomy, she was determined to be cancer-free in October.
"When I see the tractor, it's a lot of emotion for me," she said. "It's a celebration of life, it's hope. There's a lot of women out there battling breast cancer right now. Everyone knows somebody who has had cancer."
Rohrer said Farm Credit raised a total of roughly $15,000 at different events.
Rohrer and Chad Goldsmith, territory manager for Washington and Oregon for AgDirect, an equipment financing program offered by partner Farm Credit operations, including Northwest Farm Credit Services, called around to see if anyone had a pink tractor.
"When we told everyone why, they thought it was a great cause," Goldsmith said.
Worley, Idaho, farmers Chad and Clarence Haeg were willing to sell an International 330 tractor from the mid 1950s that they'd been using as a snowplow, which AgDirect purchased for $5,000. Teams sanded the tractor and John Marshall of Landcraft Repair in Ritzville, Wash., volunteered to paint it pink.
Everything involving the tractor was donated, Rohrer said.
Farm Credit also offers Pink Tractor T-shirts. All proceeds go to breast cancer research.
"The more (the tractor) goes out, the more people will say, 'Maybe I should get involved,'" Mock said. "You never know when you can touch somebody's life."
The pink tractor is primarily for display at events. Is there a chance that we may start seeing pink tractors running in farmers' fields?
"There's progressive farmers out there — I'll never say never," Goldsmith said.


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In order to help myself tackle more review books, both print and digital, once a month I will be posting a list of books that I hope to read during that month. I work more efficiently when I have a game plan, so hopefully these monthly posts will keep me focused on my goal of reading and reviewing more books, and will make my TBR not seem so intimidating. By breaking away chunks of the TBR mountain, I can better manage my reading. In theory, anyway!
While October wasn't stellar, I did make it through 14 books. I was doing great until the last week, when I re-discovered Bejeweled 2 on my Kindle Fire. What a time suck! I plan on a little less gem manipulation this month, and little more page turning.
Here are some books I hope to get through in November. What's on your reading list?
The Boss's Fake Fiancée by Inara Scott
Blades of Winter by G T Almasi
In a Fix by Linda Grimes
Binky Takes Charge by Ashley Spires (I love Binky!)
Body & Soul by Stacey Kade
Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry
When You Wish Upon A Duke by Isabella Bradford
Blackwood by Gwenda Bond
Rescue My Heart by Jill Shalvis
Library Wars Vol 7 by Kiiro Yumi
This is Not a Test by Courtney Summers
Storm by Brigid Kemmerer
The Marriage Mistake by Jennifer Probst
Undeadly by Michele Vail
A Royal Pain by Megan Mulry
The King's Damsel by Kate Emerson
Katya's World by Jonathan L Howard
Conjure by Lea Nolan
Jane by Robin Maxwell
The Dark Unwinding by Stella Cameron
What's on your reading list for November?
Ready! Set! READ!!


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FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Matt Kenseth had his testing at Texas Motor Speedway cut short when he crashed his car because of an issue with his front right tire.
Two days after losing his NASCAR Sprint Cup points lead with a 20th-place finish at Talladega, Kenseth had the session-ending crash Tuesday during a week-delayed Texas test that includes the top eight drivers in the points standings.
"Well, it was up and down. It ended down," Kenseth said. "We just had a tire problem and crashed, so we're done for the test. ... When you run nine laps and one blows apart for no reason, that's always a cause for concern for sure."
Five-time Cup champion and points leader Jimmie Johnson, who now has a four-point lead over Kenseth with four races left, wasn't even aware that his closest competitor had crashed during the test.
Kenseth said the car he crashed in turn one wasn't the Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota he plans to race at the high-banked, 1½-mile Texas track on Nov. 3, which comes after Sunday's race at Martinsville.
"No, she's at home safe ready to get to the track," Kenseth said.
Carl Edwards said he didn't see what happened to Kenseth, but that the Roush Fenway team didn't have any tire trouble.
"I wasn't sure if he was trying to get out of here early," Edwards said, with a smile. "They've had a spectacular year. He'd done amazing, so I think it's going to be a good battle between him and Jimmie."
Kevin Harvick said the Richard Childress team was putting 35 or 40 laps on a set of tires "and they're completely worn out."
The tires being used were the same drivers had for the April race at Texas won by Kyle Busch.
There are 16 drivers from five teams taking part in a three-day test at Texas that goes through Wednesday. There were 11 hours of testing scheduled Tuesday, with another full day Wednesday.
Joe Gibbs Racing, Roush Fenway, Hendrick Motorsports and Michael Waltrip Racing were all scheduled to test last week before wet and cold weather postponed that until this week, when the Childress team was already set to test.
"We're down to crunch time," Johnson said. "We all had the same agenda, the same idea when we were planning our test schedule. You feel so good when you're the only car that tests at a track and you feel like you'll have a leg up on guys. But everyone racing for the championships is here. So it's kind of a draw."
Johnson won at Texas last fall and finished sixth there in the spring.
No one has more top-five finishes (12) or led more laps (772) at Texas than Kenseth, who like Johnson has two wins there. Kenseth and Johnson are tied with a track-high 15 top-10 finishes.
Kenseth took part in testing Monday and had been scheduled to test until a late-afternoon break in testing Tuesday before the crash ended that even earlier.
Johnson, who also was testing only Monday and Tuesday, said it had been a "useful couple of days."
While things might not have gone as well in testing for Kenseth, Johnson doesn't believe Talladega and the crash will negatively affect the Joe Gibbs driver.
"With Matt, I don't know if there's a lot of significance in it. He's been doing this too long. He's won a championship," Johnson said. "He knows what it's like to experience the pressure. ... I think Matt has a lot of confidence moving forward for these next four events, as do we. His maturity, his mindset, he's pretty rock solid in that department.'


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IAGT February - Smile
Place:Staff Kitchen - Administration Wing
Smile by Telgemeier, Raina.
From sixth grade through tenth, Raina copes with a variety of dental problems that affect her appearance and how she feels about herself.
About It's A Girl Thing (IAGT) Mother - Daughter Book Club
IAGT is a free program, open to girls ages 10 to 12 and a woman partner like mom, grandma, friend or teacher. This book discussion group meets seasonally once a month and is facilitated by a member of the Youth Services staff. Book discussions meet from 5:30 to 7:00 pm on a Sunday, and each pair will be asked to contribute a dish to the group meal.
Register and pick up books at the Kids' Desk or call 879-0240 x313. Space is limited to 10 pairs per meeting.


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An Oct. 11 wedding is being planned by Jessica Oste and Robert Shultz, both of Butler.
The bride-to-be is the daughter of Wayne and Christine Oste of Jamestown, N.Y. Parents of the prospective bridegroom are Bob and Pamela Shultz of Butler.
The future bride is a 2002 graduate of Falconer High School and a 2006 graduate of Mercyhurst College. She graduated from Gannon University in 2009 with a doctorate in physical therapy.
She is a pediatric physical therapist at Positive Steps Therapy in McCandless.
Her fiance graduated from Butler High School and Butler County Community College.
He is a biomed, or clinical engineer, for Universal Medical Services in Beaver.