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• Geoffrey Hill may be the strongest and most original English poet of the second half of our fading century, although his work is by no means either easy or very popular. Dense, intricate, exceedingly compact, his poetry has always had great visionary force.

  John Hollander

  Mean, Fading, Half

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• The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic carrying innumerable passengers in a way analogous to our modern steam ships. . . it seems safe to say that such ideas are wholly visionary and even if the machine could get across with one or two passengers the expense would be prohibitive to any but the capitalist who could use his own yacht.

  William Henry Pickering

  Ideas, Two, Flying

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• Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.

  Bill Viola

  Wisdom, Mystical Experiences, Solitude

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• One hundred years ago, visionary political leaders from the Progressive Era established a system of national forests and parks in our country that are the envy of the world and today are the treasure of an entire nation. Why not a similar, global vision for our generation?

  Eban Goodstein

  Country, Our Generation, Years

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• Mary Mackey joins other visionary poets of dpaysement . . . recovering a lost part of herself in the edgy lyricism of the tropics, haunted by fado, forr, and death. The lines are tense with the vulnerability of lovers, strangers, and travelers with no ticket home.

  Dennis Nurkse

  Home, Lines, Tickets

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• Oh, I was never a businessman. I was a visionary, a dreamer.

  Jim Bakker

  Dream, Dreamer, Businessman

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have spoken so far only of the blissful visionary experience? But visionary experience is not always blissful. It's sometimes terrible. There is hell as well as heaven.

  Aldous Huxley

  Heaven, Experience, Sometimes

  1956 Heaven and Hell.

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• I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.

  Pat Benatar

  America, Pulse, Fingers

  "Book Talk: Pat Benatar says her memoir took persuasion". Interview with Nick Zieminski, www.reuters.com. July 7, 2010.

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• With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services, the result is a global economy that for the first time will be fully digitally wired - the dream of every cyber-visionary of the early 1990s, finally delivered, a full generation later

  Marc Andreessen

  Dream, Generations, Cost

  "The Live Web: Building Event-Based Connections in the Cloud". Book by Phillip J. Windley, 2012.

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• In every crisis, people do not respond like a school of fish. Some people become immobilized. Some people become very angry, some commit suicide, and other people begin to find solutions. And visionary organizers look at those people, recognize them and encourage them, and they become leaders of the future.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Suicide, School, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The loneliness of a visionary is that you might be the only one in the universe at that time who recognizes magic. I'm a magical person, and so I recognize other magical people. It takes ones to know one.

  Kim Fowley

  Loneliness, People, Magic

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• Women are the primary resource of the planet. They give birth, we come from them. They are mothers, they are visionaries, they are the future. If we can figure out how to make women feel safe and honor women, it would be parallel or equal to honoring life itself.

  Eve Ensler

  Mother, Giving, Honor

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• Steve was among the greatest of American innovators - brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it...The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steve's success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Thinking, Passing On

  "Tributes to Steve Jobs", www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2011.

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• O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.

  James Russell Lowell

  Change, Abiding, World

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.757, Delphi Classics

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• We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Soul, Vision

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• The world has lost a visionary leader, a courageous voice for justice, and a clear moral compass. By showing us that the path to freedom and human dignity lies in love, wisdom and compassion for one another, Nelson Mandela stands as an inspiration to us all.

  Kofi Annan

  Lying, Inspiration, Compassion

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• The artist's mission is to make the soul perceptible. Our scientific, materialist culture trains us to develop the eyes of outer perception. Visionary art encourages the development of our inner sight. To find the visionary realm, we use the intuitive inner eye: The eye of contemplation; the eye of the soul. All the inspiring ideas we have as artists originate here.

  Alex Grey

  Art, Eye, Sight

  Interview with Nina Pak, miroirmagazine.com. June 6, 2014.

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• It is just seeing-it is a very simple word-and to be a visionary is to be a seer. The problem is that most people can't see.

  Stan Brakhage

  Simple, People, Problem

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• Karl Marx, a visionary, figured out that you can control a slave much better by convincing him he is an employee.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Slave, Employee, Convincing

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1727, Random House

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• Without strong visionary leadership, no strategy will be executed effectively.

  Robert S. Kaplan

  Strong, Strategy, Visionary Leadership

  "Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard". Interview with Martha Lagace, hbswk.hbs.edu. August 11, 2008.

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• All s, like all human beings, get many things wrong. Ronald Reagan's extraordinary achievement as of the U.S. was to succeed in getting the two biggest challenges of his time right: defeating the Soviet Union and reviving the American economy and spirit. Neither of those achievements was inevitable. Both were fiercely opposed at the time. But he persisted; his visionary focus matched only by a gentleness of character and a brilliance of rhetoric.

  Andrew Sullivan

  War, Character, Two

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• When you undergo a visionary experience, what you are really doing is blowing your socially conditioned, 20th century, hive mind and allowing your brain to, literally, come to its senses.

  Steve Kubby

  Brain, Mind, Century

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• You don't need vision to be a visionary.

  Aaron Scheidies

  Vision, Needs

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• Every great advancement was once nothing more than a dream in the mind of a visionary.

  Robin Sharma

  Motivational, Dream, Mind

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• We all confidently believe that there are at present, and have been from time immemorial, many worlds of life besides our own. . . . [This] may seem wild, and visionary; all I maintain is that it is not unscientific.

  Lord Kelvin

  Believe, Moon, World

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