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“An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.”
Sydney J. Harris
“All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music, because, in its ideal, consummate moments, the end is not distinct from the means, the form from the matter, the subject from the expression; and to it therefore, to the condition of its perf”
Walter H. Pater
“At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.”
Shirley Chisholm
“A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
Anne Frank
“We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.”
Harold Nicolson
“The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.”
Claude M. Bristol
“He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.”
Walter Lippmann
“It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies."”
Henrik Ibsen
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