Ideals Quotes - Page 22

• Medicine would be the ideal profession if it did not involve giving pain.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Pain, Medicine, Giving

  The Health Master Ch.3

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• So my mum bought a jacuzzi, and I was in there along with my father and my sister, when my mother decided it would be the ideal moment to say - 'Guess what everyone in this jacuzzi has in common? You've all sucked on my tits.'

  Russell Howard

  Funny, Mother, Father

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• If the egalitarian wishes to realise his ideal, given the unpromising nature of his material, he might consider rendering all persons equally dead, for perhaps only thus could he eradicate any difference.

  D. Michael Quinn

  Differences, Wish, Might

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• If the Lord wills, we shall make this Math a great centre of harmony. Our Lord is the visible embodiment of the harmony of all ideals. He will be established on earth if we keep alive that spirit of harmony here. We must see to it that people of all creeds and sects, from the Brahmana down to the Chandala, may come here and find their respective ideals manifested.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Math, People, Alive

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.276, Advaita Ashrama

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• I want to start two institutions, one in Madras and one in Calcutta, to carry out my plan; and that plan briefly is to bring the Vedantic ideals into the everyday practical life of the saint or the sinner, of the sage or the ignoramus, of the Brahmin or the Pariah.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Two, Everyday, Saint

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2179, Manonmani Publishers

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• It's a walk of remembrance, a commemorative event for the victims of the twin towers, Pentagon, and Pennsylvania, ... We must reflect on the tragedy of that day and the events that have unfolded from it, and recommit to the ideals of freedom that epitomize our country and our vow to never forget.

  Greg Hicks

  Country, Remembrance, Tragedy

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• The court has had to take a hard look at our resources and make difficult decisions balancing competing demands for resources. While our current allocation of resources to the Twin Peaks Court may not be ideal, it is an appropriate allocation when all factors are considered. While I realize this will be disappointing news to you, I can assure you the matter was given serious thought before a decision was made.

  Larry Allen

  Decision, Serious, Looks

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• It is annoying that the rules of chess do not allow a pawn to take either horizontally or backwards, but only forwards ... This psychological tuning is ideal for attacking purposes, but what about for defence?

  David Bronstein

  Purpose, Tuning, Chess

  David Bronstein (1991). “200 Open Games”, p.195, Courier Corporation

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• I've got a good Barbarians squad including Australian backs who have played together. Gavin Henson would make a fool of himself if he was way off the pace. Not having made a tackle or played a game for so long beforehand would be a disadvantage. It would be ideal if he has a couple of games first, but who with?

  Nick Mallett

  Couple, Squad, Games

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• As I stood in the booth chatting to people, it occurred to me that besides good racing, the Crew Classic provided an ideal setting for the brotherhood of rowing. The brotherhood connects real rowing people. Teammates who haven't visited in years came together, and so do former opponents who once battled like mortal enemies. Suddenly they discovered they have much more in common. Long live the brotherhood of rowing.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Real, Years, Long

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• See how the Ganga flows by and what a nice building! I like this place. This is the ideal kind of place for a Math. (in Belur, West Bengal).

  Swami Vivekananda

  Nice, Math, Flow

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• If there be no eternal life, still the enjoyment of spiritual thoughts as ideals is keener and makes a man happier, whilst the foolery of materialism leads to competition and undue ambition and ultimate death, individual and national.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Ambition, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2938, Manonmani Publishers

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• If a country is governed with tolerance, the people are comfortable and honest. If a country is governed with repression, the people are depressed and crafty. When the will to power is in charge, the higher the ideals, the lower the results. Try to make people happy, and you lay the groundwork for misery. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice. Thus the Master is content to serve as an example and not to impose her will. She is pointed, but doesn't pierce. Straightforward, but supple. Radiant, but easy on the eyes.

  Laozi

  Country, Eye, People

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• The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Forgiveness, Mother, Forgiving

  Swami Vivekananda (1968). “Awakened India”

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• Love is not a word that describes my feelings; it is not a technique by which I fulfill my needs; it is not an ideal, abstract and pure, on which I meditate or discourse. It is acting in correspondence with or in response to God in relation to persons.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Love, Feelings, Acting

  Eugene H. Peterson (2006). “God's Message for Each Day: Wisdom from the Word of God”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light of ideal goods.

  George Santayana

  Love, Light, Illustration

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.27, MIT Press

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• Freemasonry must stand upon the Rock of Truth, religion, political, social, and economic. Nothing is so worthy of its care as freedom in all its aspects. "Free" is the most vital part of Freemasonry. It means freedom of thought and expression, freedom of spiritual and religious ideals, freedom from oppression, freedom from ignorance, superstition, vice and bigotry, freedom to acquire and possess property, to go and come at pleasure, and to rise or fall according to will of ability.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Spiritual, Religious, Fall

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• It has not been my fortune to know very much of Freemasonry, but I have had the great fortune to know many Freemasons and have been able in that way to judge the tree by its fruit. I know of your high ideals. I have seen that you hold your meetings in the presence of the open Bible, and I know that men who observe that formality have high sentiments of citizenship, of worth, and character. That is the strength of our Commonwealth and nation.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Character, Men, Judging

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• The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Practice, Silence

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.39, Manonmani Publishers

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• I regard affirmative action as pernicious - a system that had wonderful ideals when it started but was almost immediately abused for the benefit of white middle-class women.

  Camille Paglia

  Class, White, Benefits

  "Interview with the Vamp". Interview with Virginia Postrel, reason.com. August/September 1995.

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• The Founding Father expressed in words for all to read the ideal of Government based upon the dignity of the individual. That ideal previously had existed only in the hearts and minds of men. They produced the timeless documents upon which the Nation is rounded and has grown great. They, recognizing God as the author of individual fights, declared that the purpose of Government is to secure those rights.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Father, Heart, Fighting

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• In its main features the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document. It is a declaration not of material but of spiritual conceptions. Equality, liberty, popular sovereignty, the rights of man - these are not elements which we can see and touch. They are ideals. They have their source and their roots in the religious convictions. They belong to the unseen world. Unless the faith of the American people in these religious convictions is to endure, the principles of our Declaration will perish. We can not continue to enjoy the result if we neglect and abandon the cause.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Spiritual, Religious, Men

  Speech on the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, July 5, 1926.

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• Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Religious, Practice, Beginners

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Meditation and Its Methods”, p.56, editionNEXT.com

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• But recently it seems that each time I vote, I am being asked to compromise my conservative ideals and my commitment to the American taxpayer simply for the benefit of political gain.

  Jeff Miller

  Commitment, Political, Gains

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• This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the conflict, it led us to define precisely the conditions for its realization.

  Leon Jouhaux

  Realization, Months, Firsts

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