If the British machine is sceptical about Euro-dreams of bestriding a multipolar world, that is because it has a jump-seat view of American might and of the money and unity of purpose required to make it work.
Nor were there many people to ask about the steps we should take to fulfill our dreams of becoming world-class athletes.
Meanwhile, six players from last month's camp in Brazil were dropped - with the World Cup dreams of Daine Klate, Thulasizwe Mbuyane, Thulani Serero, Tlou Segolela and Richard Henyekane now hanging by a thread.
Picture it: A 24-year-old with dreams of seeing the world arrives in Europe in the late '80s to work as a model.
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Ms Russell has produced a rich and humid world of spirits and dreams, buzzing mosquitoes and prehistoric reptiles, baby-green cocoplums and marsh rabbits, and musty old tomes about heroes and spells.
And what has made it possible to harness the incredible productive capacity of the American people -- the greatest economic force in the history of the world -- has been a free market where people can pursue their dreams, their goals and their happiness, and where you can take charge of your own destiny.
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The fast-paced media world that we live in can be just another field of dreams.
What frightens her is the possibility that we will become so immobilised by dreams and shadows, so free of pain, mentally standardised by the cyber-world that is our principal habitat and rendered oblivious by chemicals, that we will have lost the ability to choose.
This industry has been the source of deep pride for generations of American workers whose imaginations led to some of the finest cars the world has ever known -- and whose sweat built a middle class that has held the dreams of millions of our people.
He dreams that, by the time he turns 60, he will be a world-class master of architecture who bridges the worlds of Internet technology and architectural art.
What right does Fidel Castro or anyone else have to, in practice, imprison individuals on this island-nation rather than let them pursue their dreams of playing against the best in the world?
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