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These people were something Germanic and sectarian, crossbred with seventh-generation Puritans — an industrious but fervent mix that produced, in addition to the usual collection of virtuous, lumpen farmers, three circuit riders, two inept land speculators, and one petty embezzler — chancers with a visionary streak and one eye on the horizon.† (source)
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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)
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They no longer had their sharp good humor, but had become clouded and visionary.† (source)
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Despite the visionary's genius, he was a flamboyant homosexual and worshipper of Nature's divine order, both of which placed him in a perpetual state of sin against God.† (source)
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Lahore visionaries, Lahore women, Lahore music, Lahore ghazals: my father lived in a bunker.† (source)
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That had been Annie's logic, quickly embraced and now considered visionary.† (source)
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And with the right kind of encouraging, equipping, and passionate and visionary leadership, the people who are still sitting on the fence will eventually get off and start working hard, going to class, putting forth an effort, and watching film.† (source)
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Conrad's visionaries, Lawrence's searchers, Hemingway's hunters, Kerouac's hipsters, Paul Bowles's down-and-outers and seekers, Forster's tourists, Durrell's libertines—all head south, in more senses than one.† (source)
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EB: He was a visionary, then.† (source)
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The first two groups — the Innovators and Early Adopters — are visionaries.† (source)
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You might be a loner or a visionary or a pessimist.† (source)
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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)
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He was more of a visionary than a nuts-and-bolts kind of guy.† (source)
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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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A firebrand, a visionary, a man of great personal charm and conviction.† (source)
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There might also be, say, a few visionaries: men above the immediacy of their time who could think historically.† (source)
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