And there was the hope and faith that had let him live his dream, if only for a few short months.

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Enough to let Shaq live out his dream of law enforcement work free of charge.

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We are happy that Brian will have a chance to live out his dream of playing in the NFL, and we look forward to seeing him on the field.

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They were written in the simple, sometimes awkward, sometimes grammatically incorrect, unmistakably hopeful voice of somebody who is just desperate for a chance -- just desperate to live his unlikely dream.

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If his dream was to live in the woods, with a fireplace and a typewriter and sheaves of notes hooked on the wall, almost like a deaf-mute in his dealings with the world, that was his affair.

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Yet Martin Luther King III believes that one day we will be able to live every word of his father's dream.

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This was his way of helping Americans live the American Dream.

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It was a personal call-to-arms, a charge to act so that, as he was fond of saying, his children and grandchildren could also live the American dream.

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