New Machine Interprets Dreams


	New Machine Interprets Dreams

wildcat

2-23-2008 10:08 AM

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2-23-2008 11:39 AM

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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
Marcel Proust

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
Kahlil Gibran

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