There's no point in comparing an actual, operating system with an ideal system that doesn't exist. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Marc Allen is a living example and proof that the magical approach can help us create our ideal life - easily. — Pamala Oslie Copy Share Image
Shakespeare has way too many lines. My ideal theatre piece is about 40 minutes long with no interval. — Daniel Craig Copy Share Image
In this world everything that is won to the ideal, is an eternal (or imperishable, - "impérissable", Fr.) good. — African Spir Copy Share Image
“Ideals belong in a world only the wise man can understand," Marron said quietly.” — Veronica Rossi Copy Share Image
Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Being a journalist seemed the ideal way of both having a job and experiencing the world, especially for anyone with a sense… — Jackie Kennedy Copy Share Image
The ideal of all Kosovo is membership in the EU and a permanent friendship with the United States. I believe and I… — Atifete Jahjaga Copy Share Image
Ideal women: 36-24-36, five foot seven, flat spot on top of the head, deaf mute. The flat spot on the top of… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Our practice should be based on the ideal of selflessness. Selflessness is very difficult to understand. If you try to be selfless,… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
My idealism has not abated, but I have witnessed it withering away nationwide, to the point where at least among the young,… — Charles Kennedy Copy Share Image
We are exceptional not because of who we are but because of what we do and how we put the ideals of… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
This whole phenomenon of the diversion of organizations from their purposes and ideals does not seem very serious when the scum rise… — Robert Shea Copy Share Image
I believe that there is much less difference between the author and his works than is currently supposed; it is usually in… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Education has now become the chief problem of the world, its one holy cause. The nations that see this will survive, and… — G. Stanley Hall Copy Share Image
The daily grinding of evolution, as accelerated by technology, churns out more and more complex organisms, with higher rates of energy use,… — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier that other people, and… — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
We like the idea of a guy who gets away with it ("it" in this case being a variety of things: murder,… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
If you are living for an ideal and driving yourself as hard as you can to be perfect - at your job… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
I see no profound progress taking place when there is no hope, no inspiration, only drastic overthrow and rebellion. Before having a… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Our ego ideal is precious to us because it repairs a loss of our earlier childhood, the loss of our image of… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
The majority, being satisfied with the ways of mankind as they now are (for it is they who make them what they… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I was always interested in music, I felt it was time to do it, coming out of the punk scene [1979]. I… — Rozz Williams Copy Share Image
Most of the avoidable suffering in life springs from our attempts to escape the unavoidable suffering inherent in the fragmentary nature of… — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
There is, however, in art another kind of external similarity which is founded on a fundamental truth. When there is a similarity… — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
No one in this country need go hungry, and alleviating the problem is primarily a matter of readjusting our priorities. In both… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
Focus on something that has high value to someone else, be really rigorous in making that assessment, because natural human tendency is… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
If the subjectivist view hold true, thinking cannot be of any help in determining the desirability of any goal in itself. The… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended. — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
Without peace, there is nothing truly human. Peace is harmony. And harmony is the highest ideal of life. — Klas Pontus Arnoldson Copy Share Image
It is possible to make home a bit of heaven; indeed, I picture heaven to be a continuation of the ideal home — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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