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• The framework of the artist's ideas is clearly only that which he is forever seeking for universality, and must be far wider than the framework of the ideals of the patriot.

  Sean O Faolain

  Writing, Artist, Ideas

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• Dialogue is the ideal means of showing what is between the characters. It crystallizes relationships. It should, ideally, be so effective as to make analysis or explanation of the relationships between the characters unnecessary.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Writing, Character, Mean

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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• The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Chess, Opinion, Capablanca

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• My quest, through the magic of light and shadow, is to isolate, to simplify and to give emphasis to form with the greatest clarity. To indicate the ideal proportion, to reveal sculptural mass and the dominating spirit is my goal.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Photography, Light, Giving

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• Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Cameras, Arms

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• In previous ages the word 'art' was used to cover all forms of human skill. The Greeks believed that these skills were given by the gods to man for the purpose of improving the condition of life. In a real sense, photography has fulfilled the Greek ideal of art; it should not only improve the photographer, but also improve the world.

  David Hurn

  Photography, Art, Real

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• It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.

  Red Smith

  Football, Player, Cold

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• ...chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans are thinking, self-aware beings, capable of planning ahead, who form lasting social bonds with others and have a rich social and emotional life. The great apes are therefore an ideal case for showing the arbitrariness of the species boundary. If we think that all human beings, irrespective of age or mental capacity, have some basic rights, how can we deny that the great apes, who surpass some humans in their capacities, also have these rights?

  Peter Singer

  Emotional, Thinking, Animal

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• To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be well known...The "animal scientist" to whom it is of no concern whether or not animals suffer will almost inevitably aid and abet the destruction of the decent old ideal of animal husbandry and, as a consequence, increase the suffering of animals. I hope that my country may be delivered from the remote, cold abstractions of university science.

  Wendell Berry

  Country, Animal, Pet

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• The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Psychology, Impediments, Thyself

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.145, Univ of California Press

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• The American ideal of sexuality appears to be rooted in the American ideal of masculinity. This idea has created cowboys and Indians, good guys and bad guys, punks and studs, tough guys and softies, butch and faggot, black and white. It is an ideal so paralytically infantile that it is virtually forbidden - as an unpatriotic act - that the American boy evolve into the complexity of manhood

  James A. Baldwin

  Black And White, Boys, Cowboy

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• Do not trouble yourselves about standards or ideals; but try to be faithful and natural: remember that there is no greatness, no beauty, which does not come from truth to your own knowledge of things; and keep on working, even if your work is not long remembered.

  William Dean Howells

  Truth, Greatness, Long

  William Dean Howells (2015). “Of Literature”, p.598, Simon and Schuster

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• The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.

  Albert Einstein

  Goal, Interesting, Joy

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.227, Princeton University Press

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• My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

  Albert Einstein

  Self Esteem, Men, Political

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.14, Open Road Media

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• I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves. This ethical basis I call the ideal of the pigsty.

  Albert Einstein

  Ease, Ethical, Ends

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.9, Broadway Books

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• Never mistake law for justice. Justice is an ideal, and law is a tool.

  L.E. Modesitt Jr.

  Mistake, Law, Justice

  L. E. Modesitt, Jr. (2010). “Ordermaster”, p.265, Macmillan

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• It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique.

  Conan O'Brien

  Unique, Dartmouth

  Conan O'Brien's Commencement Address at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, www.dartmouth.edu. June 12, 2011.

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• If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, you become something else entirely.

  Liam Neeson

  Men, Batman Movie, Batman Dark Knight

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• Don't accept less than what it is that you know that you want. Don't allow someone to be a jerk. Don't allow someone to disrespect you. Listen to the bigger voice in your head telling you that you deserve the best, whatever that is whatever that is you decide you like for yourself. It may differ from what I like or what is ideal for me. But the bottom line is to never accept less than what you know you deserve.

  Kimora Lee Simmons

  Voice, Disrespect, Lines

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• A revolution was never fought, throughout history, for ideals. Revolutions were fought for much more concrete things: food, clothes, housing, and to relieve intolerable oppression. … I know of no one, outside of Patrick Henry, willing to die for an abstraction.

  William Powell

  Clothes, Revolution, Oppression

  "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, Chapter Two: "Electronics, Sabotage, and Surveillance", 1971.

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• We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it's easy, but when it is hard.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Fighting, Honor

  Nobel Prize for Peace Acceptance Speech and Lecture, delivered 10 December 2009, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway

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• I never could have planned this, and now I'm in my ideal situation career-wise and just sort of where I am in my life, and I'm super happy with how everything's going.

  Shawn Ashmore

  Wise, Careers, Situation

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And you go into a supermarket and every tabloid is like, 'Pregnant and Alone!' Stuck in the 1950s ideal of how a woman should live her life. This brings out the fiery feminist in me.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Feminist, Tabloids, Should

  "Zooey Deschanel Shows Her "Fiery Feminist Side" In the August Issue of InStyle". www.instyle.com. July 07, 2014.

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• The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world, to state in aesthetic creation the deepest psychic and personal experiences of a human being. It is to enable those experiences to be intelligible and generally recognized within the total framework of an ideal world.

  Bruce Lee

  Art, Psychics, Vision

  Bruce Lee (1975). “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”, Black Belt Communications Incorporated

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• Who are your favourite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Real, Iran, Iraq

  "Hitch-22: A Memoir". Book by Christopher Hitchens, 2010.

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