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Related JULIE BURCHILL At twenty, if you are not an idealist, then you don't have a heart. And if you continue being an ide... SUDHA MURTY HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Disarming an idealist was easy. One only needed to ask why the idealist was not on the front line of... VIET THANH NGUYEN KILROY J. OLDSTER HENRY FORD HENRY FORD HENRY FORD ARTHUR MILLER JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Disarming an idealist was easy VIET THANH NGUYEN It goes back to the Greeks. Plato was an idealist, Aristotle was a materialist. JENNIFER FREDERICK JOHN F. KENNEDY I ran track in high school very competitively, and then ran it D-1 at Boston University. I ran there... UZO ADUBA The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimize themselves in favor of the ideal... But I just c... AGNES MARTIN OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES A.E. SAMAAN I am an idealist, which can be tiring. HUSSEIN CHALAYAN His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING ERALDO BANOVAC Life is an audition. THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL H. L. MENCKEN BRIT MARLING IRVING LAYTON H.L. MENCKEN WOODROW WILSON FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE H. L. MENCKEN Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM H. L. MENCKEN This is a living history. They should teach this in high school. BRYAN KENNEDY STANLEY KUBRICK LAUREN MYRACLE The philosophy is similar. They connect with adults and keep going through middle and high school. JAYSON SAMUELS GEORGE CARLIN GEORGE CARLIN Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle i.e. be... HUGH MACLEOD F. SCOTT FITZGERALD CARL SANDBURG ALFRED NOBEL C. JOYBELL C. NEIL PEART From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step. F.A. HAYEK CARL SANDBURG CARL SANDBURG មនុស្សទាំងអស់គ្មានតម្លៃទេ បើសិនណាជ... KHEM VEASNA FORD MADOX FORD TODD GITLIN WALTER BAGEHOT ROGER MOORE In fact, science is neither materialist nor idealist; it is simply science. It’s impartial and can... VALERIAN PIDMOHYLNY At the time, there was a group in town called VSA Arts, and they wanted to launch classes for people... DOUGLAS SCOTT CARL SANDBURG I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party. ED GILLESPIE Only the broken-hearted idealist can become a cynic. MARK CLIFTON JOYCE BROTHERS ALFRED NOBEL Seeing, touching is believing! THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL SEO is DEAD in the eyes of the people who know LESS about it. J. ORACOY BRANDON SANDERSON FRANCINE RIVERS RALPH WALDO EMERSON If school principals have given up on the important things and are focusing on discipline, they are ... ITAY TALGAM SYDNEY J. HARRIS You don't say to a university professor who is immersed in a particular subject that they should... MAGNUS MAGNUSSON Shahid was the free spirit of the Kamal family: a dreamer, an idealist, a wanderer on the face of th... JOHN LANCHESTER Someone once asked me whether I am an idealist or a dreamer. I'm neither. I consider myself an optim... KATE MILLER EDWARD BLISHEN GEORGE CARLIN Cultural Marxism, now called "Political Correctness" is a loaded gun that one puts to their own head... CULTURAL MARXISM GERMANY KENT STUDS TERKEL ALDEN EHRENREICH I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES In a gallery, there's an expectation of high prices and a somewhat elitist atmosphere. WILL COTTON HARPER LEE There are people out here jumping on the band wagon of everything revolutionary but they don't even ... NERISSA IRVING LOIS LOWRY MURRAY ROTHBARD AMY CHUA To stand on theASK AND IT IS GIVEN It is both disgusting and heartbreaking to see our guys on our side of the aisle conducting themselv... TOM SLADE VENKATRAMAN RAMAKRISHNAN The only other home I can enter without an invitation, is my parents home. BEN OAK Depending on whether you're an idealist or not, if you're working for the ideal bill that satisfies ... MIKE SIMPSON BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga... GARY F EVANS... DEYTH BANGER DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y... GARY F EVANS... DAVID BORENSTEIN ALEISTER CROWLEY The University of Michigan is an important school, and I respect the way they worked with us on this... KARI BJORHUS RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is true [the risk for travel is greater] for we now operate in a global market. Business traveler... MARK HALL SYDNEY J. HARRIS BRANDON SANDERSON PEDRO CALDERON DE LA BARCA When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach. VICTORIA PRATT What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA
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You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition. MICHEL ONFRAY Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clerg... MICHEL ONFRAY We do not possess an official certificate of birth for worship of one God. But the family line is cl... MICHEL ONFRAY Philosophy is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too o... MICHEL ONFRAY I am a sworn atheist and therefore from my point of view the Talmud or the Koran don't constitut... MICHEL ONFRAY By aiming for paradise, we lose sight of earth. Hope of a beyond and aspiration to an afterlife enge... MICHEL ONFRAY We can no more tolerate neutrality and benevolence toward every conceivable form of discourse, inclu... MICHEL ONFRAY I have a big problem with Islam. MICHEL ONFRAY Socialists find me too far left; Trotskyites not far enough; ecologists say I am too happy eating fo... MICHEL ONFRAY Camus believed in dialogue and diplomacy, and enlisted his work as a philosopher to the need to find... MICHEL ONFRAY If we include hedonistic philosophy in hospitals, the lives of patients suffering from cancer would ... MICHEL ONFRAY I do not despise believers. I find them neither ridiculous nor pathetic, but I lose all hope when I ... MICHEL ONFRAY MICHEL FOUCAULT MICHEL FOUCAULT MICHEL FOUCAULT Those who think in Britain they can push the Brexit button and not have a bill to pay are seriously ... CHARLES MICHEL In Britain ever more, they will realize that Brexit, well, has consequences - economic, commercial, ... CHARLES MICHEL When I was campaigning, I told the people if nothing happens under my mandate it will still be a pos... MICHEL MARTELLY MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ MICHEL FABER MICHEL FABER MICHEL FABER MICHEL FOUCAULT MICHEL FOUCAULT MICHEL FOUCAULT MICHEL LEIRIS MICHEL FOUCAULT MICHEL FOUCAULT MICHEL FOUCAULT MICHEL FOUCAULT MICHEL FOUCAULT MICHEL FOUCAULT MICHEL FOUCAULT MICHEL FOUCAULT MICHEL LEIRIS MICHEL FOUCAULT MICHEL FOUCAULT MICHEL FOUCAULT MICHEL FOUCAULT MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ MICHEL FOUCAULT MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ MICHEL FOUCAULT MICHEL FOUCAULT When you speak of silent movies, everyone thinks of Charlie Chaplin first. MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who w... MICHEL GONDRY MICHEL FABER MICHEL FABER MICHEL FABER It's a party that's being organized; it's not a protest. The carnival is not like it was... MICHEL MARTELLY It's about time that Amtrak entered the 21st century. Revenue maximization works, and as Amtrak sees... ALLEN MICHEL Whoever ends up getting Guidant at this point will probably end up paying too much. ALLEN MICHEL I would try to settle all the outstanding liability claims at this point in time, so that it doesn't... ALLEN MICHEL They've integrated a lot of the companies they've bought quite well. But when you're comparing them ... ALLEN MICHEL When you're putting off the benefits of a deal for that long, you're dramatically increasing the ris... ALLEN MICHEL They have to try to minimize each one of these risks until they finally enter the actual battle of r... ALLEN MICHEL MICHEL FABER MICHEL FOUCAULT MICHEL FOUCAULT We arrived in Argentina with a lot of injured players, including our goalkeeper. Also we were unluck... MICHEL PATINI At age eleven, I became a member of the circulating library of my home town. From there on I was rar... HARTMUT MICHEL MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ Bernard Herrmann was a genius, a great, great composer. MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS MICHEL FABER My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances ... MICHEL GONDRY If you try to make a silent movie with a normal script and you just pull out the dialogue, you will ... MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS When you're with your wife, you don't say I love you to your wife every day but the ways you... MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS MICHEL FABER MICHEL FABER MICHEL FABER I really can't blame anyone but myself, because I didn't have to deliver the album. But when... PRAS MICHEL The more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know. MICHEL LEGRAND When we were making the movie, winning awards for it wasn't the point at all. We didn't even... MICHEL HAZANAVICIUS MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ I don't want to compare myself to him - I don't want people to see me as this great genius -... MICHEL GONDRY MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ MICHEL FABER MICHEL FOUCAULT The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose. MICHEL EYQUEM We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise
with other men's wisdom. MICHEL EYQUEM The thing I fear most is fear. MICHEL EYQUEM The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it. MICHEL EYQUEM My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never
happened. MICHEL EYQUEM No wind favors him who has no destined port. MICHEL EYQUEM I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the
consequence, and pains to be cov... MICHEL EYQUEM The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true
courage. MICHEL EYQUEM This is legal process that now is up to the international community, because there is more than one ... MICHEL AOUN This will not affect the formation of the government and could even be a positive factor to end the ... MICHEL AOUN Syria is trying to strengthen its hegemony in Lebanon by controlling more and more institutions, MICHEL AOUN We have called for the boycott of the parliamentary elections because Lebanon is under Syrian contro... MICHEL AOUN The weakness of the current security services in dealing with such crimes ... led to all these explo... MICHEL AOUN one of the great journalists who never hesitated or was afraid to say the truth and defend Lebanon. MICHEL AOUN I have been given some information that confirms the presence of Syrian intelligence agents still op... MICHEL AOUN If the investigation implicates Syria, are we going to wage war on it? And if it acquits it, are we ... MICHEL AOUN The focus should be on making sure that the Palestinian infiltration is studied by the government an... MICHEL AOUN If I choose dialogue, the other party should define the goals. MICHEL AOUN We have exceeded forecasts. Such large growth was not expected. MICHEL ALABY Ore doesn't have added value. MICHEL ALABY It is the Brazilian port with greatest infrastructure. MICHEL ALABY The idea is to make the chambers speak to the governments to implement these proposals. MICHEL ALABY As an example of the cooperation existing among the governments, the idea is also to establish and i... MICHEL ALABY It was a courtesy visit. He is a very pleasant and intelligent man. MICHEL ALABY According to the statistics agency of the Chinese government, China invested US$ 7 billion in Sudan ... MICHEL ALABY We exported commodities to Somalia. MICHEL ALABY She showed interest in learning about the profile of the Brazilian companies so that they may partic... 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A cynic should never marry an idealist. For the cynic, marriage represents the welcome end of romant... 
Living with a dog is messy - like living with an idealist 
An ethical idealist, a person whom embraces the honorable philosophy of ethical idealism, performs a... 
An idealist is one who helps the other fellow to make a profit 
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. 
It is a lie. 
I'm an idealist without illusions. 
I'm an idealist without illusions. 
Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, ... 
A "racist" thinks themselves better than other races. An "elitist" thinks they are better than every... 
A pragmatic person sees the dark and the light side of life, while an idealist sees a life filled wi... 
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it is a... 
I'm still a bit of a romantic and an idealist and hopelessly naive. 
Idealist: a cynic in the making. 
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it make... 
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the ... 
The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell. 
You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot. 
Mother Superior jump the gun...
Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist. 
I'm a cynical idealist. 
I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on the way. 
I am a misanthrope, but exceedingly benevolent; I am very cranky, and am a super-idealist. ... I can... 
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... 
Now I call myself a bleeding heart libertarian. Because I do believe in the principles of Libertaria... 
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way. 
I'm an idealist: I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way. 
You see in such a world as this, an idealist -or perhaps it's only a sentimentalist-must be stoned t... 
I am a realist as well as an idealist, and I think that it is incumbent upon those of us in oppositi... 
Life is a school of probability. 
I am a mixture of idealist and realist. 
The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the... 
I let out a sound that was definitely not a whimper. It was something far more manly, no matter what... 
Were you there?”
The greatest difficulty is that men do not think enough of themselves, do not consider what it is th... 
An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A re... 
Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half an emptiness dressed up in garments borr... 
Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist. 
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I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: &... 
I think now I'm more realistic, but I'm still very much an idealist. 
I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is ... 
He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself 
The very essence of political philosophy is the carving out of an ethical system - strictly, a subse... 
Instilling a sense of self-discipline and focus when the kids are younger makes it so much easier by... 
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Life is a re-discovery. 
Life Is a Misconception. 
Bush Sr. was a jerk, Quayle an idiot, Clinton was atrocious and disgusting, most of those who persec... 
They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual... 
For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. 
If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the... 
For the bourgeoisie, the main danger against which it had to be protected, that which had to be avoi... 
I am for the muscles. I would like to have a lot of muscles, because women like it. I'm for body... 
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Sugar understood the permanence of being Sugar or Lotty or Lucy or whoever you might be, trapped on ... 
Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed wi... 
Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the perso... 
Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We gener... 
Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting d... 