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• The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Reality, Ideas, Giving

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• I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.

  Harper Lee

  Integrity, Believe, Reality

  To Kill a Mockingbird ch. 20 (1960)

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• One is apt to think of moral failure as due to weakness of character: more often it is due to an inadequate ideal.

  Richard Livingstone

  Character, Thinking, Weakness

  Richard Livingstone (2013). “On Education”, p.153, Cambridge University Press

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• I'm quite amused by the attempt to excuse not trying harder, by claiming that perfect is not possible; it may not be, but striving toward it as an ideal is! It is in the act of 'striving' that we demonstrate character, courage, and conscience.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Character, Perfect, Trying

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• My belief is that no human being or society composed of human beings ever did or ever will come to much unless their conduct was governed and guided by the love of some ethical ideal.

  Thomas Huxley

  Belief, Ethical, Idealism

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.396, Cambridge University Press

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• The theory that everyone acts from self-interest, direct or indirect, is psychologically unsound. . . . Throughout history . . . there have been millions of men and women with some sort of Humanist philosophy who have consciously given up their lives for a social ideal.

  Corliss Lamont

  Philosophy, Men, Self

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• I believe that there is something far nobler than loyalty to any particular man. Loyalty to the truth as we perceive it - loyalty to our duty as we know it - loyalty to the ideals of our brain and heart - is, to my mind, far greater and far nobler than loyalty to the life of any particular man or God. . . .

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Life, Loyalty, Believe

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.2019, Library of Alexandria

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• We will never have peace in the world until men everywhere recognize that ends are not cut off from means, because the means represent the ideal in the making, and the end in process, and ultimately you can't reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Mean, Cutting

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• The deepest bonds of unity are forged through the trial of competing ideals that have compatible values.

  Wes Fesler

  Unity, Trials, Competing

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• The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party, which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same basic policies.

  Carroll Quigley

  Party, Years, Ideas

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• But we have a war of ideals and ideas, and that is to sell democracy.

  John McCain

  War, Ideas, Historical

  "Newsweek Quran story prompts policy review", www.cnn.com. May 17, 2005.

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• This doesn't mean abandoning our values and ideals; wherever we can, it's in our interest to help foster democracy through the diplomatic and economic resources at our disposal.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Historical, Democracy

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have the ideal body or total mastery of all aspects of the art form, but on the stage they possessed magnetism-true artistry, by which I mean a charismatic quality. You can work with a coach to try and develop it, but a true artist has the ability to express his inner feelings naturally.

  Fernando Bujones

  Art, Stars, Mean

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We have proved that the true strength of our nation comes not from the scale of our wealth but from the power of our ideals - opportunity, democracy, liberty and hope.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Opportunity, Democracy

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• Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.

  Patrick Duffy

  Couple, Work, Nice

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• America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Country, Men, America

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• The sad thing is, I was discovering that you almost have to make a joke of being good to strangers. Up and down the country, these people doing their good deeds were doubtless being seen as slightly eccentric, when in reality and in an ideal world they should be deemed the most normal people of all.

  Danny Wallace

  Karma, Country, Reality

  Danny Wallace (2010). “Join Me”, p.159, Random House

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• What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone that we hope for our physical and moral rehabilitation. For this reason above all we have undertaken to rally our people around our ideal.

  Theodor Herzl

  People, Rehabilitation, Want

  Theodor Herzl (1960). “Herzl Speaks His Mind on Issues, Events, and Men”

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• We must eat three meals a day, even if we're not hungry, and when we fail to fit the current ideal of beauty we must fast, even if we're starving.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Meals

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• Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural equilibrium of the ideal.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Cheer, Mind

  Charles Baudelaire, Jonathan Mayne (1981). “Art in Paris 1845-1862: salons and other exhibitions”

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• The contradiction [trying to use Russian model to reshape Italy] grew to such an extent that I felt totally cut off from the communist world and, in the end, from politics. That was fortunate. The idea of putting literature in second place, after politics, is an enormous mistake, because politics almost never achieves its ideals.

  Italo Calvino

  Mistake, Cutting, Ideas

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• We are made up of two contrasting ideals: Love And Fear. Pick One and Live.

  Axl Rose

  Two, Made, Love And Fear

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• The American culture ideal of the "self-made-man," of everyone "standing on his own feet" seemed as tragic a picture as the initiative-destroying dependence on a benevolent despot. He felt and perceived clearly that we all need continuous help from each other, and that this type of interdependence is the greatest challenge to maturity of individual and group functioning.

  Kurt Lewin

  Maturity, Men, Self

  "The Research Center for Group Dynamics".

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• The Best ideal is the true and other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to the holy Three in One.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Three, Truth Is, Glory

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (1961). “Poems: The First Edition”

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• I have long been a proponent of a guest-worker program between the United States and Mexico, and in particular I have proposed that Arizona would be an ideal location for a pilot project.

  Janet Napolitano

  Long, United States, Would Be

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