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• The ideal project does not exist, each time there is the opportunity to realize an approximation.

  Paulo Mendes da Rocha

  Opportunity, Doe, Realizing

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• The ideal mother, like the ideal marriage, is a fiction.

  Milton Sapirstein

  Marriage, Mother, Fiction

  Milton R. Sapirstein (1955). “Paradoxes of Everyday Life: A Psychoanalyst's Interpretations”

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• By sharing something, I realized that I'm not alone, that there are a lot of people that share with me the same preoccupations, the same ideas, the same ideals, and the same quest for a meaning for this life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Ideas, People, Quests

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• Integrity is the integration of ideals, convictions, standards, beliefs-and behavior. When our behavior is congruent with our professed values, when ideals and practice match up, we have integrity.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Integrity, Practice, Belief

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• Times are difficult globally; awakening is no longer a luxury or an ideal. It’s becoming critical. We don’t need to add more depression, more discouragement, or more anger to what’s already here. It’s becoming essential that we learn how to relate sanely with difficult times. The earth seems to be beseeching us to connect with joy and discover our innermost essence. This is the best way that we can benefit others.

  Pema Chodron

  Essence, Luxury, Joy

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• Planning leads to dictatorship because dictatorship is the most effective instrument of coercion and the enforcement of ideals and, as such, essential if central planning on a large scale is to be possible.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Essentials, Enforcement, Coercion

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I wish I could recall with clarity the impulse that compelled me to help bring this camp into being. I'd be pleased if I could announce a motive of lofty purpose. I've been accused of compassion, of altruism, of devotion to Christian, Hebrew, and Muslim ethic, but however desperate I am to claim ownership of a high ideal, I cannot. I wanted, I think, to acknowledge Luck; the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others, made especially savage for children because they may not be allowed the good fortune of a lifetime to correct it.

  Paul Newman

  Christian, Children, Thinking

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• My ideal of manliness is to be incapable of doing anything

  Robert Pattinson

  Incapable, Manliness

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• I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well

  Victoria Principal

  Found, Competing, Wells

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