#ideal

But in simple substances the influence of one monad over another is ideal only. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

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I'm interested in why people compromise when they shouldn't. It comes back to what V's about in a sense. We've all got ideals, but given the right circumstances, we'll forget about them and put them behind us. I'm very interested in why people do that. ↗

— David Lloyd

#back #behind #circumstances #comes #compromise

Are ideals confined to this deformed experiment upon a noble purpose, tainted, as it is, with bargains and tied to a peace treaty which might have been disposed of long ago to the great benefit of the world if it had not been compelled to carry this rider on its back? ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

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But it is well to remember that we are dealing with nations every one of which has a direct individual interest to serve, and there is grave danger in an unshared idealism. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#dealing #direct #every #grave #grave danger

Our ideal is to make her ever stronger and better and finer, because in that way alone, as we believe, can she be of the greatest service to the world's peace and to the welfare of mankind. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

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Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of her own free will. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#free #free will #future #her #ideal

Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

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No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people. ↗

— Olivier Martinez

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I'm what a normal, healthy, ideal American should be like. ↗

— George McGovern

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