While we were talking I told her I was getting ready to create my Dream Board with a theme of Seize the Day.

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The desire to dream again was a common theme, and many iReporters said they yearn for more hopeful times.

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Sydney's firework spectacular had the theme "Time to Dream", which producer Aneurin Coffey said was about giving people a chance to put a bad year behind them.

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For at least five hundred years that has been Florida's defining theme whoever the protagonists are, whatever their dream, whatever flag they wave.

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Peterson authored Running on Empty (2004), Will America Grow Up Before It Grows Old? (1996) and, lest his theme escape you, Facing Up: How to Rescue the Economy from Crushing Debt and Restore the American Dream (1993).

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