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“The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness, beauty, and truth”
Albert Einstein
“All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.”
Mae West
“No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism”
Winston Churchill
“Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.”
Carl Schurz
“We need you, we need your youth, your strength, and your idealism, to help us make right what is wrong.”
Ronald Reagan
“Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyse your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.”
Leo F. Buscaglia
“A conviction of self-worth and passion for ideals fuse in a life attitude that is positive, free, noble and spiritually enhancing.”
Bill Jay
“Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism; Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our leaders, the C-students from Yale, know this. We're proud of being ignorant; that leaves virtue at our core. We aren't frazzled by knowledge like foreigners, so we can be trusted.”
Kurt Vonnegut
“The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.”
Jules Renard
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