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I have long felt that the way to keep children out of trouble is to keep them interested in things. Lecturing to children is no answer to delinquency. Preaching won't keep youngsters out of trouble, but keeping their minds occupied will.

— Walt Disney Deeds Rather Than Words (1963)

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All we ever intended for him or expected of him was that he should continue to make people everywhere chuckle with him and at him.

All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them.

EPCOT promotional film (1966)

Courage is the main quality of leadership, in my opinion, no matter where it is exercised. Usually it implies some risk — especially in new undertakings.

The Magic of Teamwork (1997)

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

EPCOT promotional film (1966)

Somehow, I can't believe that there are any heights that can't be scaled by a man who knows the secret of making dreams come true.

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The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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