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60 quotesIdeals are the worlds masters.
Ideals and Idealism
Josiah Gilbert Holland
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I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.
Passion
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
Ideals and Idealism
Herbert Clark Hoover
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To be an ideal guest, stay at home.
Guests
Edgar Watson Howe
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Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
Politicians and Politics
Aldous Huxley
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Don't use that foreign word ideals. We have that excellent native word lies.
Ideals and Idealism
Henrik Ibsen
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Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
Ideals and Idealism
Joseph Joubert
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Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
Addiction
Carl Jung
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When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
Ideals and Idealism
Ellen Key
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A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.
Ideals and Idealism
Pir Vilayat Khan
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The enemy of idealism is zealotry.
Ideals and Idealism
Neil Kinnock
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
Children
Karl Kraus
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Idealist: a cynic in the making.
Ideals and Idealism
Irving Layton
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Sorrow is the great idealizer.
Grief
James Russell Lowell
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The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.
Ideals and Idealism
James Russell Lowell
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Man is a dog's ideal of what God should be.
God
Andre Mairaux
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The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.
Beauty
W. Somerset Maugham
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The American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.
Youth
Henry Miller
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The ideal committee is one with me as the chairman, and two other members in bed with the flu.
Committees and Meetings
Lord Milverton
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Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
Failure
Jawaharlal Nehru
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The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
Ideals and Idealism
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.
Success
Earl Nightingale
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We're an ideal political family, as accessible as Disneyland.
President
Maureen Reagan
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Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
Ideals and Idealism
Theodore Roosevelt
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The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
Ideals and Idealism
Jean Rostand
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun