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  2. Big dream - Wikipedia

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    According to Carl Jung, these dreams arise from the collective unconscious more than the personal unconscious, [2] that is, their imagery is broadly shared by many people in different cultures. Jung states that these dreams appear more often in during critical phases of change in human life, being early youth, puberty, middle age and as one ...

  3. Ambition (character trait) - Wikipedia

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    Ambition is a character trait that describes people who are driven to better their station or to succeed at lofty goals. It has been categorized both as a virtue and as a vice. The use of the word "ambitious" in William Shakespeare 's Julius Caesar (1599), for example, points to its use to describe someone who is ruthless in seeking out ...

  4. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all; Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness; Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt; Better wear out than rust out; Beware of Greeks bearing gifts (Trojan War, Virgil in the Aeneid) [9] Big fish eat little fish

  5. Dr. Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech: Full text - AOL

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    It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that ...

  6. Synecdoche - Wikipedia

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    Synecdoche is a rhetorical trope and a kind of metonymy—a figure of speech using a term to denote one thing to refer to a related thing. [9] [10]Synecdoche (and thus metonymy) is distinct from metaphor, [11] although in the past, it was considered a sub-species of metaphor, intending metaphor as a type of conceptual substitution (as Quintilian does in Institutio oratoria Book VIII).

  7. List of works based on dreams - Wikipedia

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    The Belgian comics artist Hergé was plagued by nightmares in which he was chased by a white skeleton, whereupon the entire environment turned white. A psychiatrist advised him to stop making comics and take a rest, but Hergé drew an entire story set in a white environment: the snowy mountaintops of Tibet.

  8. You Asked for It: the Lyrics to Olivia Rodrigo's "Teenage ...

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    "Teenage Dream" is the closing track to Olivia Rodrigo's new album 'GUTS,' and we're breaking down exactly what the lyrics ... They say it all gets better. It gets better the more you grow ...

  9. Oneiric (film theory) - Wikipedia

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    In film theory, the term oneiric (/ oʊ ˈ n aɪ r ɪ k / oh-NY-rik, adjective; "pertaining to dreams") refers to the depiction of dream-like states or to the use of the metaphor of a dream or the dream-state in the analysis of a film. [1] [2] [3]: 3–4 The term comes from the Greek Óneiros, the personification of dreams.