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• I know it's very idealistic and utopian, but I believe we need to just let everyone not be judged in terms of religion, groups or nations or region.

  Shahrukh Khan

  Believe, Groups, Needs

  "Shah Rukh Khan: 'My job is to make people smile'" by Grace Wong, www.cnn.com. March 1, 2010.

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• Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Selfish, People, Heaven

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I do honestly think that if women were running the world there would be more investment in peace, because basically as women we do not want to see our children killed. Maybe I am completely idealistic, but until we see women in equal positions of power in the world, I just think that we are doomed.

  Meryl Streep

  Running, Children, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Two world wars, three monstrous dictatorships-in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Red China-plus every lesser variant of devastating socialist experimentation in a global spread of brutality and despair, have not prompted modern intellectuals to question or revise their dogma. They still think that it is daring, idealistic and unconventional to denounce the rich. They still believe that money is the root of all evil-except government money, which is the solution to all problems.

  Ayn Rand

  War, Believe, Thinking

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• The vocabulary of the political left is fascinating. For example, it is considered to be 'materialistic' and 'greedy' to want to keep what you have earned. But it is 'idealistic' to want to take away what someone else has earned and spend it for your own political benefit or to feel good about yourself.

  Thomas Sowell

  Money, Vocabulary, Political

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• Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.

  Frank Gehry

  Vacation, People, Generations

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• When I leave the office on January 20th, I will leave even more idealistic than I was the day I took the oath of office.

  William J. Clinton

  Oath Of Office, January, Presidency

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.2632, Best Books on

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• To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.

  Barbara Cartland

  Beautiful, Women, Sleep

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• For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually; otherwise our spirituality can become idealistic and imitative, acting out the image of generosity before it has become genuine.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Generosity, Quality

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• Every decision a person makes stems from the person's values and goals. People can have many different goals and values; fame, profit, love, survival, fun, and freedom, are just some of the goals that a good person might have. When the goal is to help others as well as oneself, we call that idealism. My work on free software is motivated by an idealistic goal: spreading freedom and cooperation. I want to encourage free software to spread, replacing proprietary software that forbids cooperation, and thus make our society better.

  Richard Stallman

  Fun, Helping Others, People

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.75, Lulu.com

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• It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, "This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams", when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.

  Olivier Martinez

  Dream, Strong, Thinking

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

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• So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things.

  Thom Yorke

  Artist, Power, Thinking

  "Thom Yorke an Howard Zinn debate the artist’s role in saving the world". Interview with Sarah Burton, www.howardzinn.org. November 23, 2003.

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• I think for it to be hip to be idealistic is weird, you know? I mean, even all the best rebels to me, had some sense of hope in them.

  Tom Petty

  Fun, Mean, Thinking

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• However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

  Raymond Chandler

  Money, Men, May

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.139, Univ of California Press

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• It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love, Not War. We were idealistic innocents, despite the drugs and sex.

  Margot Kidder

  Retirement, Sex, War

  "No kidding" by Chris Roberts, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2005.

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• We need to shed our unearthly and nonsocial and idealistic and romantic and uber-spiritual visions of kingdom and get back to what Jesus meant. By kingdom, Jesus means: God's Dream Society on earth, spreading out from the land of Israel to encompass the whole world.

  Scot McKnight

  Dream, Spiritual, Jesus

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• America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

  Woodrow Wilson

  America, Presidential, World

  Address supporting League of Nations, Sioux Falls, S.D., 8 Sept. 1919

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• It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love Not War - we were idealistic innocents, darling, despite the drugs and sex. We were sweet lovely people who wanted to throw out all the staid institutions who placed money and wars above all else. When you're young you think that's how life works. None of us were famous, we were broke. We didn't think they'd be writing books about us in 30 years. We were just kids doing the right thing.

  Margot Kidder

  Sweet, Sex, War

  “No kidding” by Chris Roberts, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2005.

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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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• Elimination of nuclear weapons, so naive, so simplistic, and so idealistic as to be quixotic? Some may think so. But as human beings, citizens of nations with power to influence events in the world, can we be at peace with ourselves if we strive for less? I think not.

  Robert McNamara

  Thinking, Events, Nuclear

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• The illusion of magic is an idealistic fantasy; it exists only in the imagination of the spectator.

  Paul LePaul

  Imagination, Magic, Fantasy

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• There were three kinds of evangelical leaders: The dumb or idealistic ones who really believed. The out-and-out charlatans. And the smart ones who still believed – sort of – but knew that the evangelical world was sh*t, but who couldn't figure out any way to earn as good a living anywhere else.

  Frank Schaeffer

  Smart, Leader, Dumb

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• Helpless, unknown, and unremembered, most human beings, however sensitive, idealistic, intelligent, go through life as passengers rather than chauffeurs. Although we may pretend that it is the chauffeur who is the social inferior, most of us, like Toad of Toad Hall, would not mind a turn at the wheel ourselves.

  Ralph Harper

  Intelligent, Mind, Wheels

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• Am I in love? Absolutely. I'm in love with ancient philosophers, foreign painters, classic authors, and musicians who have died long ago. I'm a passionate lover. I fawn over these people. I have given them my heart and my soul. The trouble is, I'm unable to love anyone tangible. I have sacrificed a physical bond, for a metaphysical relationship. I am the ultimate idealistic lover.

  James Dean

  Heart, Long Ago, People

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• Enlightenment doesn't mean we were never wounded; it means we've found a way to evolve beyond our wounds. Enlightenment isn't idealistic; it's practical. What's idealistic is thinking we can live from our wounds, stay in our weakness, and ever transform the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Mean, Thinking, Enlightenment

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jun 19, 2013

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