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  • 00:10

    When I was around seven, my toothless brother and I, on long, boring taxi rides in Syria,

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    would indulge in imperialistic fantasies of how we wanted to take over the country outside

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    our windows.

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    My parents would quickly crush these imperial conquests by warning: “Shh!

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    You’ll get taken by secret service if they hear you.”

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    The walls everywhere, we were told, could hear our revolutionary ideas and would send

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    us to prison.

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    Whereas children here had ghosts and the boogeyman, our equivalents were our governments.

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    Fast forward to 2010.

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    When I first got here, someone told me, “If Harvard shut its gates, it could be its own

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    country, just like the Vatican.”

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    As I’ve walked through this place every day for the past four years, I was struck

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    by how true this idea was.

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    I saw it everywhere: The Harvard Nation.

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    I saw it in the big and obvious things: We had our own version of the Statue of Liberty,

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    the John Harvard statue, our own embassies, the Harvard Clubs of Boston and London, a

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    tax collection agency, the Harvard Alumni Association, and an endowment larger than

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    more than half the world’s countries’ GDPs.

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    We also had our own diplomatic passports.

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    Nowhere did I see this more clearly than at US immigration at Boston Logan airport.

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    Whenever they saw I was coming from the Middle East: “What were you doing there?

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    Why are you here?

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    Why did God make you from the Middle East?”

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    But I made sure I dressed like our overly proud Harvard dads, with Harvard hat, Harvard

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    shirt, Harvard shorts, and Harvard underwear and as soon as they saw I was a citizen of

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    Harvard: “Ohhhh!

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    You go to Harvard?!

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    Surely you must not be a national security threat!

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    Welcome to America!”

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    And suddenly all the gates to the American Dream opened wide.

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    I saw it everywhere, this “Harvard Nation”.

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    But I saw it not just in the hard structures but, more importantly, in its invisible institutions

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    ... the invisible scaffolds around and undergirding the hard institutions....

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    I saw it in the quarrelling columns of The Crimson newspaper... its Kung-Fu fights of

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    ideas and lively student debates with the potency to propel policy changes by the next

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    morning’s print.

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    I saw it in our cluttered bulletin boards, bustling with life... with announcements of

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    student-led conferences, Broadwayworthy shows and dorm-room projects turned world’s next

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    Facebook smothering each other for our cursory glimpse... a trivial detail these cluttered

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    boards that often slipped notice, but where some saw papers, I saw passions, purpose,

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    creativity - I saw a heartbeat of civic community’s vivacity.

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    My parents’ countries were places where institutional dysfunction killed off this

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    social dynamism and vibrant productivity and so I felt acutely here the value of civil

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    society and living, breathing institutions.

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    My time here would give me a working model of a better world - not only that, but that

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    sense of empowerment to initiate change.

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    You see, with those spying walls still lurking in my memory that constrained the little Napoleons

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    in my brother and me, you might imagine my shock when, in one of my first classes here,

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    I suddenly found myself debating a president.

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    “So it’s the 1990s,” our negotiations class professor set the stage.

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    “A war’s about to break out between Ecuador and Peru.

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    How will you stop it?”

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    I raised my hand to respond.

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    “Wait.”

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    Professor Shapiro stopped me, “Tell the president what to do” and in walked the

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    Ecuadorian president.

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    In bringing the president to me, in having me speak to and question a shaper of history

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    and experience the value he saw in my view, Harvard would make me feel I too could be

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    him.

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    I, too, had the power to shape history and not just be passively shaped by it.

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    That sense of infinite possibility we have as children - to think big and conquer great

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    things - was returned to me here, a less despotic version of it.

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    What seemed intractable problems of the world became opportunities for me, for us, to change

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    things.

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    You know, when I first got here my name was Sarah; after Harvard, it would become “Hey

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    Harvard!” with people stuffing 378 years, 5,000 acres of real estate, the entirety of

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    Widener library and 32 heads of state all into my 5 foot 6 inch self!

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    Ridiculous as it is, there’s a strange reality to it.

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    Arab-American author Randa Jarrar pictures inhabiting a new place as “[...] running

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    barefoot, the skin of our feet collecting sand and seeds and rocks and grass until we

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    had shoes, shoes made of everything we’d picked up as we ran.”

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    And running through Harvard Yard over the past four years, the skin of our feet collecting

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    a world of experiences, we each become this place in a strange way, each of us picking

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    up bits of people and history and ideas that changed the way we saw the world... accumulations

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    I hope we will continue to wear on our “soles” and leave a footprint of all the best we took

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    from Harvard Yard on our new destinations.

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    And that’s why I am hopeful for the future.

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    I am hopeful because of my dining hall dinners spent marveling at friends who, while their

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    countries wage bloody war against each other, are able to carry out civil conversation and

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    build generative projects together.

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    I am hopeful because of the Founding Mothers and Founding Fathers of revolutionary ideas

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    like these being launched into the world who will make of its institutions, its constitutions,

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    its hospitals, its art houses something better.

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    We’ve heard a lot in the news about an Arab Spring - this graduation is sending 6,000

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    revolutions into the world in the 6,000 revolutions graduating as part of the class of 2014 ... if

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    we take those waiting revolutions, those great ideas sparked behind Chipotle burritos and

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    Starbucks coffee cups in our version of Tahrir Square, Harvard Square, out with us into the

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    real world, into the real Tahrir Squares, and make something of them!

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    Revolutions not in arms but in minds ... more powerful and permanent and pervasive.

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    For, this isn’t a Ukrainian revolution or an Arab Spring, but a global revolution.

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    This is the Harvard Spring of 2014.

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    This is the Harvard Spring!

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The example sentences of FANTASIES in videos (15 in total of 52)

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Use "fantasies" in a sentence | "fantasies" example sentences

How to use "fantasies" in a sentence?

  • Pleasure unparalleled, into the ocean of love we fell. Swimming in the timeless currents of pure bliss, fantasies interchanging with every kiss.
    -LL Cool J-
  • It was like meeting someone out of your dreams, or fantasies, or a beloved character from a favorite book.
    -James Patterson-
  • Writing is hard work, but a lot of fun, too. It allows me to live out some of my fantasies.
    -Christopher Darden-
  • Writing is a little door. Some fantasies, like big pieces of furniture, won’t come through.
    -Susan Sontag-
  • It's nice to be included in people's fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.
    -Marilyn Monroe-
  • While working in advertising, I channelled my creative energy into elaborate escape fantasies: cake making, dog breeding, the Peace Corps.
    -Meg Rosoff-
  • When you turn that fantasy into a fact, you are in a position to build even better fantasies. And that, my friend, is the Creative Process.
    -Bob Proctor-
  • Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.
    -Sappho-

Definition and meaning of FANTASIES

What does "fantasies mean?"

/ˈfan(t)əsē/

noun
faculty of imagining impossible things.
other
Some things imagined very different from reality.
verb
fantasize about.

What are synonyms of "fantasies"?
Some common synonyms of "fantasies" are:
  • imagination,
  • creativity,
  • fancy,
  • invention,
  • originality,
  • vision,
  • speculation,
  • make-believe,
  • daydreaming,
  • reverie,

You can find detailed definitions of them on this page.

What are antonyms of "fantasies"?
Some common antonyms of "fantasies" are:
  • truth,
  • realism,

You can find detailed definitions of them on this page.