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• I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to everybody else and nobody can get punished for it. That can only happen without hierarchy and without people having the authority to punish other people.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  People, Hierarchy, Anarchy

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• I do not think we will see a stateless society in my lifetime. But I am sure we will not see a state that conforms to the minarchists' ideals. The closer we get, the better, but I see no reason not to aspire for the best government as Thoreau imagined it: none at all. It's certainly more consistently idealistic than what the minarchists imagine, and yet it's at least possible, whereas the existence of a lasting, minimal state is a hopeless fantasy.

  Anthony Gregory

  Thinking, Government, Anarchy

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• The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the world by mathematical formulas. Only money economy has filled the days of so many people with weighing, calculating, with numerical determinations, with a reduction of qualitative values to quantitative ones.

  Georg Simmel

  Determination, People, World

  Georg Simmel, Kurt H. Wolff (1950). “The Sociology of Georg Simmel”, p.412, Simon and Schuster

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• The fate of an epoch that has eaten of the tree of knowledge is that it must...recognize that general views of life and the universe can never be the products of increasing empirical knowledge, and that the highest ideals, which move us most forcefully, are always formed only in the struggle with other ideals which are just as sacred to others as ours are to us.

  Max Weber

  Struggle, Moving, Fate

  Max Weber (2015). “On the Methodology of the Social Sciences”, p.84, Lulu Press, Inc

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• What we dedicate today is not a memorial to war, rather it's a tribute to the physical and moral courage that makes heroes out of farm and city boys and that inspires Americans in every generation to lay down their lives for people they will never meet, for ideals that make life itself worth living.

  Bob Dole

  War, Hero, Self Worth

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• Children who are respected learn respect. Children who are cared for learn to care for those weaker than themselves. Children who are loved for what they are cannot learn intolerance. In an environment such as this, they will develop their own ideals, which can be nothing other than humane, since they grew out of the experience of love.

  Alice Miller

  Love, Respect, Children

  Alice Miller (1998). “Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's Betrayal of the Child”, p.115, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• When Things Fall Apart” and I quote “Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it.  Nothing ever sums itself up in the way that we like to dream about. The off-center, in-between state is an ideal situation, a situation in which we don't get caught and we can open our hearts and minds beyond limit. It's a very tender, nonaggressive, open-ended state of affairs.

  Pema Chodron

  Dream, Hope, Teacher

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• A race or nation stands so much the higher, the more perfectly its members express the pure, ideal human type ... The evolution of man through the incarnations in ever higher national and racial forms is thus a process of liberation [leading to] an ideal future.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Men, Race, Evolution Of Man

  Rudolf Steiner (2015). “How to Know Higher Worlds”, p.92, RSP

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• The World Cup tournament overall and, naturally, the new stadiums at its heart, are the ideal platform to portray Germany as a positive and exceptional location, and above all of course, as a highly capable economic location.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Heart, Germany, World

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• I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a man who goes around with a little oil can and when he sees a breakdown, offers his help. To me, the man who does that is greater than any holy man in saffron-colored robes. The mechanic with the oil can: that is my ideal in life.

  Baba Amte

  Men, Oil, Leader

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• If you wish to enrich days, plant flowers; If you wish to enrich years, plant trees; If you wish to enrich Eternity, plant ideals in the lives of others.

  S. Truett Cathy

  Flower, Years, Tree

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• What is necessary is not to seek after some fantastic ideal, utterly unsuited to our real needs, but to discover the true nature of those needs, to fulfill them, and rejoice therein.

  Aleister Crowley

  Real, Needs, Fantastic

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• The Annex is an ideal place to hide in. It may be damp and lopsided, but there's probably not a more comfortable hiding place in all of Amsterdam. No, in all of Holland.

  Anne Frank

  May, Amsterdam, Hiding

  Anne Frank (2010). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.26, Anchor

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• Our founding fathers started this country and built it on God and His Word, and this country sure would be a better place to live and raise our children if we still followed their ideals and beliefs.

  Phil Robertson

  Country, Children, Father

  "Happy, Happy, Happy: My Life and Legacy as the Duck Commander". Book by Phil Robertson, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2013.

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• The United Nations has long recognised that the imagination, ideals and energies of young men and women are vital for the continuing development of the societies in which they live. And since its inception in 1948, AIESEC has contributed to this development by serving as an agent of positive change trough education and cultural exchange.

  Kofi Annan

  Men, Imagination, Long

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• The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards. When you drive hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths, not to mention hurting your confidence. Believe in your potential and then go out and explore it; don't limit it.

  John Eliot

  Hurt, Believe, Opportunity

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• The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, colour-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books that I have read.

  Anthony Burgess

  Book, Catholic, Musician

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• Now is the time to lead your ideal life.

  Phil Cousineau

  Ideal Life

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• Traditionally the Nude was used to express formulations about life as larger-than-life, as Heroic or Ideal... The nude is not a 'genre' subject.

  Isabel Bishop

  Beauty, Larger Than Life, Heroic

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• All seasoned players know, or at least have felt, that when you are playing your best, you are much the same as in a state of meditation. You are free of tension and chatter. You are concentrating on one thing. It is the ideal condition for good golf.

  Harvey Penick

  Golf, Player, Meditation

  Harvey Penick (2011). “The Game for a Lifetime: More Lessons and Teachings”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.

  Herbert Croly

  Promise, Literature, Determined

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.5, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, which set an edge to a man's energy.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Spring, Men, Clouds

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.290

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• The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. Mankind has not passed through the Middle Ages. Rather mankind has retreated from the Middle Ages in reaction and rout. The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Mean, Past

  What's Wrong with theWorld pt. 1, ch. 5 (1910)

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• Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic and electoral pressures, of what socialism is all about. ... In short, the state [is] everything and the individual nothing.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Expression, Historical, Aberration

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• The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity—and until they do (and find the cure), all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Real, Philosophical, Fall

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.279, Princeton University Press

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