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• Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Inspirational, Reality, Honestly

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• The worst effect of sin is within and is manifest not in poverty, and pain, and bodily defacement, but in the discrowned faculties, the unworthy love, the low ideal, the brutalized and enslaved spirit.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Love, Pain, Poverty

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• The function of an ideal is not to be realized but, like that of the North
  Star, to serve as a guiding point.

  Edward Abbey

  Stars, Function, North Star

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• The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others.

  Edward Abbey

  Mean, Men, Ideal Society

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.17, RosettaBooks

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• There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization. Civilization remains a remote ideal.

  Edward Abbey

  Civilization, Names, Worthy

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.23, RosettaBooks

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• The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink.

  Edward Abbey

  Kitchen, Add, Novel

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.35, RosettaBooks

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• One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor energy, and the rider has the prerogative of determining the goal and of guiding the movements of his powerful mount towards it. But all too often in the relations between the ego and the id we find a picture of the less ideal situation in which the rider is obliged to guide his horse in the direction in which it itself wants to go.

  Sigmund Freud

  Horse, Powerful, Goal

  "New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis. Lecture 31 : The Anatomy of the Mental Personality". 1932.

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• Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too.

  Charles Van Doren

  World, Should, Radical

  "Know it all" by Stacy Schiff, www.newyorker.com. July 31, 2006.

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• India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.

  Will Durant

  Mother, Philosophy, Race

  "The Case for India". Book by Will Durant, 1931.

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• Since our complex societies are highly susceptible to interferences and accidents, they certainly offer ideal opportunities for a prompt disruption of normal activities.

  Jurgen Habermas

  Opportunity, Normal, Disruption

  "Philosophy in a Time of Terror: : Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida". Book by Giovanna Borradori, 2004.

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• So much American science fiction is parochial - not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the future, more or less like ours, and with the same ideals, the same notions of how to do things, just bigger and flashier technology. Well, you know darn well it doesn't work that way.

  Poul Anderson

  Technology, Years, Way

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• The ideals of the party were close to me, and I have tried to adhere to those principles all my life. In essence, they are the same as in the Ten Commandments in the Bible. I will never change my convictions

  Valentina Tereshkova

  Change, Party, Essence

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• It is this language of values which I hope to bring to my books. . . . I want to bring values to those who have not been valued, and I want to etch those values in terms of the ideal. Young people need ideals which identify them, and their lives, as central . . . guideposts which tell them what they can be, should be, and indeed are.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Book, People, Needs

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• Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon.

  Bill Ayers

  Pentagon

  Bill Ayers (2002). “Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist”, p.264, Beacon Press

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• Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.140, Vivekananda Kendra

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• The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Art, Rights, Diversity

  "Straight outta Brooklyn" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2003.

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• Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Real, Men

  Victor Hugo (2001). “William Shakespeare”, p.43, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal.

  Victor Hugo

  Needs, Bread, Rooted

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.2640, BookCaps Study Guides

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• No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.

  William Butler Yeats

  Art, People, Conquer

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.362, Simon and Schuster

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• Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubts; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Attitude, Self Confidence, Years

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• The ideal artist is he who knows everything, feels everything, experiences everything, and retains his experience in a spirit of wonder and feeds upon it with creative lust.

  George Bellows

  Inspiring, Artist, Creative

  Marjorie B. Searl, George Bellows, Ronald Netsky, University of Rochester. Memorial Art Gallery (2003). “Leaving for the country: George Bellows at Woodstock”, Memorial Art Gallery of Univ

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• To a large extent, the American church has become merged with the world. It has adopted so many of the world's ideals and standards that it has lost its ability to stem the tide of crime, deception and immorality that is sweeping the nation. For millions of church members there is no deep commitment to the cause of Christ, no regularity of attendance at public worship, no sacrificial giving, no personal religious discipline.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Religious, Commitment

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• Any leaders who disappoint the people, ideals and promises by which they were appointed are by definition themselves dis-appointed.

  Vanna Bonta

  Leadership, People, Promise

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• After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the non-existence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it, "I refute it thus."

  James Boswell

  Philosophy, Science, Feet

  James Boswell (1998). “Life of Johnson”, p.333, Oxford University Press, USA

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• We are bemused and crazed creatures, strangers to our true selves, to one another, and to the spiritual and material world - mad, even, from an ideal standpoint we can glimpse but not adopt.

  R. D. Laing

  Spiritual, Self, Mad

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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