Meindert DeJong quotes
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“if you just go on dreaming then it stays a dream and becomes stale and dead. But first to dream and then to do isn't that the way to make a dream come true”
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“The restlessness and the longing, like the longing that is in the whistle of a faraway train. Except that the longing isn't really in the whistle—it is in you.”
-- Meindert DeJong
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“Be fanatics. When it comes to being and doing and dreaming the best, be maniacs.”
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“The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.”
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“The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.”
Source : "The Trouble Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792-1939". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, 1957.
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