"Congress's Shameful Retreat From American Values" in The Chicago Tribune (4 October 2006)
“As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.”
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Source: Evolution (2002), Chapter 16 “An Entangled Bank” section I (p. 513)
"Dream a Little Dream of Me" (1931), was one of Cass Elliot's biggest hits but the lyrics by Gus Kahn were written many years before her definitive rendition; the music by Fabian Andre & Wilbur Schwandt. More information on how she came to record it is provided at NPR: "Dream a Little Dream of Me" ranked as one of the 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/vote/100list.html#D.
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“Love is when you give someone else the power to destroy you, and you trust them not to do it.”
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“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
“Before your dreams can come true, you have to have those dreams.”
As quoted in Bursting at the Seams : A Wealth of Wit and Wisdom by, for, and about Women (2004) edited by Killy John and Alie Stibbe