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Commonly attributed to C. S. Lewis, this sentence contests the idea that ambition has an expiry date. Lewis himself published the Narnia books in his fifties and married for the first time at fifty-eight.

It makes a quiet distinction worth keeping. A goal is a commitment to act; a dream is a commitment to imagine. The line insists on both, because either one alone is insufficient — goals without dreams narrow into administration, and dreams without goals never leave the head.

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