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A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
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Alexander Smith
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A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.
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Pir Vilayat Khan
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An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
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Henry Ford
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Don't use that foreign word ideals. We have that excellent native word lies.
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Henrik Ibsen
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I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.
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Carl Sandburg
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Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
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John Galsworthy
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Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive.
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William F. Buckley
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Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.
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Mikhail Bakunin
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Idealist: a cynic in the making.
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Irving Layton
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Ideals are the worlds masters.
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Josiah Gilbert Holland
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No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
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Winston Churchill
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Our ideals are our better selves.
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Amos Bronson Alcott
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45 votes
Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.
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Joseph Joubert
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Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.
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Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Saddle your dreams before you ride em.
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Mary Webb
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Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
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Theodore Roosevelt
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The actual well seen is ideal.
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Thomas Carlyle
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The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.
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Stanley Baldwin
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The enemy of idealism is zealotry.
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Neil Kinnock
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The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
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Jean Rostand
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The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.
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Malcolm De Chazal
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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.
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James Russell Lowell
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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Calvin Coolidge
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What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real.
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Francis Herbert Hedge
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When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
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Ellen Key
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When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.
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Libby Houston
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Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?
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Eliza Cook
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Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
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Herbert Clark Hoover
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You should never have your best trousers on when you turn out to fight for freedom and truth.
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Henrik Ibsen
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