#ideal

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

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What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real. ↗

— Francis Herbert Hedge

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Ideals are the world's masters. ↗

— J. G. Holland

#masters #world

To be an ideal guest, stay at home. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#guest #home #ideal #stay

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth? ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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Busted is not the ideal band I'd like to be in by any stretch of the imagination. ↗

— Charlie Simpson

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He who does not believe has no soul. He is empty. He has no ideals. He has nothing to live for. He has no sunshine, no light, no joy in life. He is a poor, poor man. ↗

— Robert Ley

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For we, too, have our ideals, even if we differ from those who have tried to establish a monopoly of idealism. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

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I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God. ↗

— William Howard Taft

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The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat. ↗

— Jules Renard

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