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• It's an ideal existence. Out in the open. Berating the president of he United States... I'm free to thwart and torment the authorities - that is to say, I can get out my hostilities - because I'm protected in my conscience by the knowledge that what I'm doing is morally right. I've never been so relaxed. I've never been so happy.

  Benjamin Spock

  Men, President, United States

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• I think a writer is not an ideal husband... Writers tend to get off into their own heads and not notice the people that they're living with, or they get irritable with the people that they're living with when the people insist on being noticed.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Husband, Writing, Thinking

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• True Americanism is practical idealism. Its aims, instead of being materialistic and mechanical, are idealistic to the point of being Utopian. In this way, the U.S. can provide and express ideals that strike a chord in humans everywhere - a declaration of independence on behalf of all the peoples of the world.

  Maurice Saatchi

  Independence, World, Way

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• I can't say I had an ideal father, and I'm not a father myself.

  Steven Saylor

  Father, I Can

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• Brothers in suffering, brothers in resistance, brothers in ideals and conviction. It is now our duty to further strengthen this bond in order to secure this hard-won freedom for future generations.

  Guy Verhofstadt

  Brother, Order, Suffering

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• I love the novel of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profoundly beautiful novel. I love the movie of 'The English Patient'; I think it's a profoundly beautiful movie. And they're totally different. You accept each on its own terms, and that's kind of the ideal.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Beautiful, Thinking, Different

  "Ayelet Waldman on Acting Your Age". Interview with Tim J Luddy, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2009.

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• It's hard if you start believing that you should be really that perfect fantasy ideal, that people start believing because of all of the retouching. You can delve into that fantasy world and play with it, but when you walk away, that's not you.

  Gemma Ward

  Believe, Play, Perfect

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• In an ideal world, I'd bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts.

  David Yates

  Drama, World, Scripts

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

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• In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists in the Classical tradition, inspired by Platonic idealism, strove to create images that represented not the world of particulars-with all its defects-but an ideal image conceived in the mind, which was taken as representing some absolute, pure, ideal form of which all particular, material forms are but a mere shadow.

  John Walford

  Beauty, Taken, Artist

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• The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Cute, Friendship, Two

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• 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

  Inspirational, Time, Clear Goals

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.148, Lulu.com

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• The challenge of abating one with a genuine ego problem is to not try to put him down. Any and all antagonization, in his mind, is merely compensated for by his own descriptions: his feelings of persecution by the envious and his ideals of worth. Arguably, the genuine ego is more of a circumstantial defense mechanism rather than a steady arrogance in need of starvation.

  Criss Jami

  Ego Problem, Challenges, Feelings

  Criss Jami (2013). “Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality”, p.65, Criss Jami

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• Remember the refrain: We always build on the past; the past always tries to stop us. Freedom is about stopping the past, but we have lost that ideal.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Past, Trying, Stopping

  Keynote address at the Open Source Convention, July 24, 2002.

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• You have to check out 'March of the Penguins'. Penguins are the really ideal example of monogamy.

  Rich Lowry

  Example, Penguins, March

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• France will always be France no matter what, but America involves striving toward an ideal.

  Rich Lowry

  America, Matter, France

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• I built the ideal house down in the Caribbean. All Englishmen dream of leaving the rain of England and getting a place in the sun - out in the grounds with separate guest houses; that is the ideal scenario.

  Robin Leach

  Dream, Rain, House

  "Interview: Robin Leach interview". www.askmen.com.

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• It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.

  Benjamin E. Mays

  Disaster, Capture

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• As a writer, I am an intellectual. I believe in the ideals of the Enlightenment, I believe in the written word, in dialogue and in truth. I hate lies more than anything else. Most of the time I react by writing.

  Henning Mankell

  Hate, Lying, Believe

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• I think almost every woman artist I've ever met has this ideal of being in a partnership working situation with a man, that men don't seem to share. They seem to want this ideal thing, that we'll always be together and work together.

  Tom Verlaine

  Artist, Men, Thinking

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• My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.

  Olivia Williams

  Long, Parent, Happy Marriage

  "Olivia Williams: My family values" by Maureen Patton, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2012.

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• Although eugenics flourished in Nazi Germany, the ideal of a blond-haired, blue-eyed master race wasn’t Adolf Hitler’s. It may surprise many to know that, in Mein Kampf, Hitler credited America with helping formulate his ideas on eugenics, and he admitted he’d studied the laws of US states to familiarize himself with selective reproduction and other eugenics issues.

  James Morcan

  Eugenics, Race, Blue

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• For Singapore, its test for its own democracy must be whether it fit and serve the interests of its people and conditions, and not serve some abstract ideal that the Western media thought it ought to conform to. If in 10 years, Philippines, Taiwan and Korea were better societies because they adopted the US model, Singapore would hurry to catch.

  Goh Chok Tong

  Media, Korea, Years

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• I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority. This view sustains a conception of human dignity insofar as it sees in each man a capacity for choosing his own behavior. And as it turned out, many subjects did, indeed, choose to reject the experimenter's commands, providing a powerful affirmation of human ideals.

  Stanley Milgram

  Powerful, Men, Views

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• Average human nature is very coarse, and its ideals must necessarily be average. The world never loved perfect poise. What the world does love is commonly absence of poise, for it has to be amused.

  Henry Adams

  Love Is, Average, Perfect

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.31, Booklassic

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• I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like.

  George McGovern

  Healthy, Normal, Should

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