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Comment author: komponisto 19 May 2009 08:29:01PM *  8 points [-]

Some people dream of great things. Others stay awake and do them.

-Poster found in school classrooms

(Anyone know the original source?)

Comment author: newerspeak 20 May 2009 06:19:36AM 10 points [-]

It's a paraphrase of T.E. Lawrence:

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 on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

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