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Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism,… — Richard M. Nixon
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals. — Bertrand Russell
Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power. — Bertrand Russell
In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the… — Bertrand Russell
All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon… — Jerry Saltz
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants. — Arthur Schopenhauer
If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college. — Sargent Shriver
The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should. — Sargent Shriver
Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others.… — Thomas Sowell
No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism… — Alfred North Whitehead
I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all idealism, and have… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I heard somebody open and shut the gate to the barn lot, but I didn't look around. If I didn't look around it would not… — Robert Penn Warren
Well, I mean, yes idealism, yes the dignity of pure research, yes the pursuit of truth in all its forms, but there comes a point… — Douglas Adams
Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production. — Raymond Chandler
I shared a vagrant optimism that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of… — Hunter S. Thompson
The '60s redefined narcissism as idealism. — Dennis Prager
Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either… — Erich Segal
Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist. — George Carlin
Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck the surface with… — Dorothy L. Sayers
[in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer and that of… — Anais Nin
The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country. — Robert Kennedy
But it does no good--solves nothing--to distance myself from the front lines of human need by using the mail as a safe shelter. I believe… — Robert Fulghum
Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent. — Theodore Roosevelt
All students enter law school with a certain amount of idealism and desire to serve the public, but after three years of brutal competition we… — John Grisham
Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived...Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation... Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form… — Anne Lamott

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