#ideals

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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Although I never publicly defended promiscuity, I never publicly attacked it. I attempted to avoid the subject, in part because I felt, and often still feel, unable to live up to the ideals I really hold. ↗

— Andrew Sullivan

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We hold our dreams and ideals close to our hearts, where the promises are made to the future generations. ↗

— John Rachel

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Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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But, gentlemen, can any of us say that as a result of such overwhelming sacrifices of money, of men, of ideals, and of civil dignity the sense of security has indeed been attained? ↗

— Henry Campbell-Bannerman

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The great artist is a slave to his ideals. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#great #his #ideals #slave

As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks. ↗

— David Horowitz

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You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals. ↗

— Roger McGough

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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts. ↗

— Harold Nicolson

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Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements. ↗

— Agnes Repplier

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