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  • He seemed to think we were a visionary group, open to special forms of consciousness.†  (source)
  • That had been Annie's logic, quickly embraced and now considered visionary.†  (source)
  • EB: He was a visionary, then.†  (source)
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  • The old man's obstinacy seemed natural to them, not because, as it was too easy to say, old age had made him less visionary than he had always been, but because renouncing the monopoly must have seemed to him like throwing away the victories of a historic battle that he and his brothers had waged unaided, back in heroic times, against powerful adversaries from all over the world.†  (source)
  • Lahore visionaries, Lahore women, Lahore music, Lahore ghazals: my father lived in a bunker.†  (source)
  • Forget visionary woe, and think only of real happiness!†  (source)
  • I also learned about ubuntu—the Xhosa word for humanity—and the power of authentic leadership as exhibited by giants like Nelson Mandela and a thousand other self-sacrificing visionaries who had managed the unforeseen transition from apartheid to democracy without a bloodbath.†  (source)
  • But the visionary little maid on her part, beckoned likewise, as if to say—"This is a better place; come thou into the pool."†  (source)
  • Getting to the top of any given mountain was considered much less important than how one got there: prestige was earned by tackling the most unforgiving routes with minimal equipment, admired more than so-called free soloists: visionaries who ascended in the boldest style imaginable.†  (source)
  • (trying to look like Tolstoy) And those burning, visionary eyes†  (source)
  • There might also be, say, a few visionaries: men above the immediacy of their time who could think historically.†  (source)
  • And then Jackie Kennedy takes on the same visionary tone of her husband.†  (source)
  • They were both of them, like the Old Man, visionaries, yet they could argue fine points like Jesuits, had memories for facts and figures, and they both had a way with people.†  (source)
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