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• To have a Welch-caliber C.E.O. is impressive.To have a century of Welch-Caliber C.E.O.'s all grown from the inside - well, that is one key reason why G.E. is a visionary company.

  James C. Collins

  Keys, Reason Why, Century

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• Dynamic, rapidly expanding European monarchy seeks a can-do visionary to head up its South American divisions.Our ideal candidate will have at least five years' experience in New World colonization and be willing to accept shift work. Fluency in Spanish an asset.Some travel involved

  Christopher Columbus

  Years, World, Fluency

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• How will I be remembered? As a technician or artist? As a humorist or a visionary?

  Norman Rockwell

  Artist, Remembered, Technicians

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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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• 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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• 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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• Visionaries have the unique ability to dream of what's possible and then make it a reality. We are excited to watch these visionaries use technology to help students develop skills in collaboration, critical thinking and teamwork that they'll need to compete in the global economy.

  Michael Dell

  Teamwork, Dream, Unique

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• America's leaders have to find a way to work together, rise to the challenge, and come up with solutions as bold and visionary as the people of this nation.

  Joe Biden

  America, People, Leader

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• The idea that I should become President seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person.

  Zachary Taylor

  Ideas, Presidential, Answers

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• The utopian schemes of leveling and a community of goods,  are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the crown. These ideas are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government unconstitutional.

  Samuel Adams

  Government, Ideas, Community

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• This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary.

  Edward Abbey

  Beautiful, Nature, Travel

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.1, University of Arizona Press

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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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• Steve Jobs is a national treasure. He is so visionary, and so bright. I had to fire him, though.

  Arthur Rock

  Jobs, Fire, Treasure

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• The scarily brilliant Romantic poet and visionary William Blake dared to say what many of us have perhaps thought but kept to ourselves: “A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.

  Brian D. McLaren

  Church, Brilliant, Common

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• This elaborate Golden Dawn system became part of Crowley's own inner world ... He carried it further than even the Golden Dawn principals had envisaged. I know of nothing within the Order documentary that even hints at the kind of visionary and spiritual experience that Crowley managed to get out of it.

  Israel Regardie

  Spiritual, Order, Dawn

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• The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.

  Murray Bookchin

  Thinking, Libertarian, Acid

  Murray Bookchin (1992). “Urbanization without cities: the rise and decline of citizenship”, Black Rose Books Ltd

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Feeling at peace, however fragilely, made it easy to slip into the visionary end of the dark-sight. The rose shadows said that they loved the sun, but that they also loved the dark, where their roots grew through the lightless mystery of the earth. The roses said: You do not have to choose.

  Robin McKinley

  Dark, Roots, Sight

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• If critics and fanboys weren't suckers for simplistic nihilism and high-pressure marketing, Afterlife would be universally acclaimed as a visionary feat, superior to Inception and Avatar on every level.

  Armond White

  Afterlife, Marketing, Nihilism

  "Armond White trollin': Calls Res Evil 'superior to Inception on every level.'" by Vince Mancini, uproxx.com. September 16, 2010.

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• I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere.

  Paul Allen

  Effort, Fundamentals, Answers

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• The visionary is the only realist.

  Federico Fellini

  Hipster, Realist

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