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• In the ideal college, intrinsic education would be available to anyone who wanted it...The college would be life-long, for learning can take place all through life.

  Abraham Maslow

  Education, College, Long

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• The liberated man is not the one who is freed in his ideal reality, his inner truth, or his transparency; he is the man who changes spaces, who circulates, who changes sex, clothes, and habits according to fashion, rather than morality, and who changes opinions not as his conscience dictates but in response to opinion polls.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Funny, Fashion, Sex

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• The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach

  Sophocles

  Learning, Men, Intuition

  Sophocles (1977). “The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version”, Harcourt

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• Art is mainly about wrestling with material reality, not striving after a spiritual ideal.

  Calvin Seerveld

  Spiritual, Art, Wrestling

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• When you're a trans woman, you are made to walk this very fine line, where if you act feminine you are accused of being a parody, but if you act masculine, it is seen as a sign of your true male identity. And if you act sweet and demure, you're accused of reinforcing patriarchal ideals of female passivity, but if you stand up for your own rights and make your voice heard, then you are dismissed as wielding male privilege and entitlement.

  Julia Serano

  Sweet, Rights, Voice

  Julia Serano (2013). “Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive”, p.20, Seal Press

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• I may think that hornets do not have an ideal social organization. But I know better than to poke their nest.

  Fred Reed

  Thinking, Organization, May

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• At home, I dedicate occasional whole days to reading as if I’m a convalescent. The ideal place for this is the bath, where the body floats free. Books go a little wavy, but they’re mine, so who cares.

  Rachel Kushner

  Book, Reading, Home

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• While followers idealize the real, leaders realize the ideal... They outshine with their power of love those whose only motivation is love of power.

  Debashis Chatterjee

  Leadership, Motivation, Real

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• Our relationship would never vary from its allegiance to the shared values, the shared religious heritage, the shared democratic politics which have made the relationship between the United States and Israel a special-even on occasion a wonderful-relationship ... The United States admires Israel for all that it has overcome and for all that it has accomplished. We are proud of the strong bond we have forged with Israel, based on our shared values and ideals. That unique relationship will endure just as Israel has endured.

  William J. Clinton

  Religious, Strong, Unique

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• There is a flickering spark in us all which, if struck at just the right age...can light the rest of our lives, elevating our ideals, deepening our tolerance, and sharpening our appetite for knowledge about the rest of the world. Educational and cultural exchanges...provide a perfect opportunity for this precious spark to grow, making us more sensitive and wiser international citizens through our careers.

  Ronald Reagan

  Educational, Opportunity, Careers

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• Being critical of the nation is a far cry from being unpatriotic or anti-American. In fact, most social criticism . . . is based on a love of America's ideals and a concern we're not living up to them.

  Robert Reich

  America, Political, Criticism

  Robert B. Reich (2004). “Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America”, p.114, Vintage

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• The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Reality, Ideas, Giving

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• I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.

  Harper Lee

  Integrity, Believe, Reality

  To Kill a Mockingbird ch. 20 (1960)

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• I'm quite amused by the attempt to excuse not trying harder, by claiming that perfect is not possible; it may not be, but striving toward it as an ideal is! It is in the act of 'striving' that we demonstrate character, courage, and conscience.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Character, Perfect, Trying

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• My belief is that no human being or society composed of human beings ever did or ever will come to much unless their conduct was governed and guided by the love of some ethical ideal.

  Thomas Huxley

  Belief, Ethical, Idealism

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.396, Cambridge University Press

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• The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party, which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same basic policies.

  Carroll Quigley

  Party, Years, Ideas

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• But we have a war of ideals and ideas, and that is to sell democracy.

  John McCain

  War, Ideas, Historical

  "Newsweek Quran story prompts policy review", www.cnn.com. May 17, 2005.

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• One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have the ideal body or total mastery of all aspects of the art form, but on the stage they possessed magnetism-true artistry, by which I mean a charismatic quality. You can work with a coach to try and develop it, but a true artist has the ability to express his inner feelings naturally.

  Fernando Bujones

  Art, Stars, Mean

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

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• We have proved that the true strength of our nation comes not from the scale of our wealth but from the power of our ideals - opportunity, democracy, liberty and hope.

  Barack Obama

  Strong, Opportunity, Democracy

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• The sad thing is, I was discovering that you almost have to make a joke of being good to strangers. Up and down the country, these people doing their good deeds were doubtless being seen as slightly eccentric, when in reality and in an ideal world they should be deemed the most normal people of all.

  Danny Wallace

  Karma, Country, Reality

  Danny Wallace (2010). “Join Me”, p.159, Random House

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• What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone that we hope for our physical and moral rehabilitation. For this reason above all we have undertaken to rally our people around our ideal.

  Theodor Herzl

  People, Rehabilitation, Want

  Theodor Herzl (1960). “Herzl Speaks His Mind on Issues, Events, and Men”

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• Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural equilibrium of the ideal.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Cheer, Mind

  Charles Baudelaire, Jonathan Mayne (1981). “Art in Paris 1845-1862: salons and other exhibitions”

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• The Best ideal is the true and other truth is none. All glory be ascribed to the holy Three in One.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Three, Truth Is, Glory

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (1961). “Poems: The First Edition”

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• I have long been a proponent of a guest-worker program between the United States and Mexico, and in particular I have proposed that Arizona would be an ideal location for a pilot project.

  Janet Napolitano

  Long, United States, Would Be

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• It is Jesus who stirs in you the desire to do something great with your lives, the will to follow an ideal, the refusal to allow yourselves to be ground down by mediocrity, the courage to commit yourselves humbly and patiently to improving yourselves and society, making the world more human and more fraternal.

  Pope John Paul II

  Jesus, Catholic, Desire

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