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• My parents are wonderful people and they instilled in me an idealism for which I’m grateful.

  Hugh Hefner

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• We must lose our romanticism without losing our idealism.

  Shraga Silverstein

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• We lose most of our ideals not because we find them to be mistaken, but because we find if difficult to abide by them.

  Shraga Silverstein

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• Ideal – Many ideals deteriorate into idols.

  Shraga Silverstein

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• Let us not assume, just because we have been cockeyed idealists, that it is cockeyed to be an idealist.

  Shraga Silverstein

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• It is terrible to witness a loss of idealism in others, to see the soul, as it were, departing, and the body left an empty husk.

  Shraga Silverstein

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• An idealist is a man who looks at a rose, and thinks, because it smells sweet, it will make better soup than a cabbage.

  H. L. Mencken

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• Even when Darwin’s teaching first made its appearance, it became clear at once that its scientific, materialist core, its teaching concerning the evolution of living nature, was antagonistic to the idealism that reigned in biology.

  Trofim Lysenko

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• Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.

  Germaine Greer

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• When I first ran for public office, it was with the passion and idealism of a young man who believed that government could help make our lives better, that public service was a calling and that citizenship demanded responsibilities. There was a greater good.

  James McGreevey

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• Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That’s why we get into trouble all the time. We’re always viewed as naive.

  Angelo Bartlett Giamatti

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• Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

  Sidney Hook

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• If a young person has any idealism at all, it’s strongest about the time he finishes college.

  Sargent Shriver

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• The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.

  Sargent Shriver

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• He ‘s ruthless only because of his ideals. Unfortunately he doesn’t succeed. The thing fails and gets out of hand and takes charge of him. Idealism is the only excuse he could have and it’s a great excuse.

  Terence Fisher

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• Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

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• Ideals do exist, the rest is just temporary interruption.

  Vanna Bonta

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• The fact is, beneath the hype, Iraqis will soon appreciate American help and idealism far more than French perfidy. It is never wrong to be on the side of freedom – never.

  Victor Davis Hanson

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• 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 word.

  Bertrand Russell

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• Our ideals are our better selves.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

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