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It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing.

— Howard Carter

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

— Mark Twain

Where there is no vision, there is no hope.

— George Washington Carver

And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me.

— Black Elk

We gazed dreamily at the Milky Way and once in a while caught some shooting stars. Times like those gave me the opportunity to wonder and ask all those very basic questions. That sense of awe for the heavens started there.

— Kalpana Chawla

The first time I saw America was from my perch on the mast of a Spanish naval ship, where I could spot the Statue of Liberty reaching proudly into the open, endless American sky.

— Jose Andres

We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming.

— Howard Carter

✗Opposing Perspectives

Sight is something you take for granted until you think you might lose it.

— Paul Coffey

After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see.

— Joy Page

We cannot afford to exclude any vision - any way of looking at the world - that human beings have invented for ourselves.

— John Clute

Vision is perhaps our greatest strength... it has kept us alive to the power and continuity of thought through the centuries, it makes us peer into the future and lends shape to the unknown.

— Li Ka-shing