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In a world quick to shout its chaos, the gentleness of silent endurance reveals the true mastery of the soul.
Author:
Freya Mitchell
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When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.
Author:
Clara Zetkin
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Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.
Author:
Naomi Wolf
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My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.
Author:
Woodrow Wilson
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The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
Author:
Alfred Whitehead
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I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.
Author:
Mae West
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Brothers in suffering, brothers in resistance, brothers in ideals and conviction. It is now our duty to further strengthen this bond in order to secure this hard-won freedom for future generations.
Author:
Guy Verhofstadt
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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
Author:
Samuel Ullman
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I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.
Author:
Harry Truman
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The Republic of Macedonia is being built on democratic ideals and values, not on ethnic groups. Those ideals and values include economic opportunities, language and educational opportunities, religious rights, and political processes.
Author:
Boris Trajkovski
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There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans.
Author:
Helen Thomas
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To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.
Author:
Major Taylor
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If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women will have extended liberty to the Iraqi people, just as previous generations of Americans have all across the globe.
Author:
James Talent
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And it seems to me important for a country, for a nation to certainly know about its glorious achievements but also to know where its ideals failed, in order to keep that from happening again.
Author:
George Takei
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Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood.
Author:
George Takei
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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.
Author:
William Taft
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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.
Author:
Andrew Sullivan
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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.
Author:
Gertrude Stein
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The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.
Author:
Robert Smithson
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Ideals are not something I can control. It's not logic that convinces me of something, it's what my heart says. My heart has a way of involving me in things, which can only be good for the music.
Author:
Michelle Shocked
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It is my pleasure to support a candidate who truly reflects our values and highest ideals.
Author:
Martin Sheen
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But the more an organization succeeds and prospers, the more it is likely to be diverted from its original ideals, principles and purposes.
Author:
Robert Shea
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This whole phenomenon of the diversion of organizations from their purposes and ideals does not seem very serious when the scum rise to the top in the bridge club or the offices of a small magazine publisher.
Author:
Robert Shea
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The concepts of Joss are pure, and express attitudes and technical ideals.
Author:
Cliff Shaw
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I've always been very interested in the struggle for human rights, not just here but abroad, and I wanted to be an inside player in that struggle. I wanted to make the laws reflect our ideals and ideas in this democracy that is America.
Author:
Leah Sears
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Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
Author:
Carl Schurz
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An America that inspires hope in its ideals must complement an America that inspires awe in its strength.
Author:
Adam Schiff
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It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
Author:
Theodore Roosevelt
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Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.
Author:
Franklin Roosevelt
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But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals.
Author:
John Robinson
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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.
Author:
Agnes Repplier
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A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.
Author:
Herbert Read
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The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.
Author:
Carroll Quigley
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A well balanced, inclusive approach, according to certain standards and ideals, is essential for the proper governance of any country.
Author:
Laisenia Qarase
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Honest discussions - even and perhaps especially on topics about which we disagree - can help us resist hypocrisy and arrogance. They can also help us live up to the basic ideals, such as liberty and justice for all, on which our country was founded.
Author:
David Price
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Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.
Author:
Dennis Potter
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It would be especially tragic if the people who most cherish ideals of peace, who are most anxious for political cooperation on a wider than national scale, made the mistake of underestimating the pace of economic change in our modern world.
Author:
Lester Pearson
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I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award.
Author:
Lester Pearson
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Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.
Author:
Ron Paul
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My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
Author:
Camille Paglia
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To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.
Author:
William Osler
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One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
Author:
Barack Obama
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We've got very large freshman class, it's historic in its size, so there's people that are extremely diverse in their backgrounds and their viewpoints. I think that we're going to see a conservative group of people coming together, focused on some real ideals that are going to be extremely important.
Author:
Kristi Noem
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
Author:
Harold Nicolson
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Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.
Author:
Jawaharlal Nehru
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Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.
Author:
James Naismith
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Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
Author:
Ralph Nader
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These are classic, perennial ideals we are dealing with.
Author:
Rob Morrow
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Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.
Author:
Alberto Moravia
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I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
Author:
Frederica Montseny
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But recently it seems that each time I vote, I am being asked to compromise my conservative ideals and my commitment to the American taxpayer simply for the benefit of political gain.
Author:
Jeff Miller
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The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.
Author:
Golda Meir
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You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.
Author:
Roger McGough
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There's Eddie's conviction and his lyrics and his ideals, and he can just rock straight out. His vocals are incredible. And we all are really competent musicians.
Author:
Mike McCready
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When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.
Author:
Judith Martin
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It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.
Author:
Kamisese Mara
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The ideals and principles for which Dr King fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago.
Author:
George Lucas
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We must accept the fact that transport and communications will bring the world in close relations and the youth of the world should have standards and ideals in common.
Author:
Juliette Low
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Ours is a circle of friendships united by ideals.
Author:
Juliette Low
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If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.
Author:
H. Lovecraft
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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?
Author:
Henry Lodge
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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.
Author:
Henry Lodge
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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.
Author:
David Lloyd
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Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.
Author:
Walter Lippmann
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Freedom of religion is a principle that is central to our Nation's Declaration of Independence. Congress has taken this positive step to protect our freedom to express allegiance to America's flag and the ideals it represents.
Author:
Ron Lewis
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The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.
Author:
Jonathan Lethem
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
Author:
Karl Kraus
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Throughout the past, there has been a lack of intimacy, affection, and regard for Islam by Christianity. This, to a large extent, has been due to a lack of knowledge of the great human and spiritual ideals for which Islam and the teachings of Islam stand.
Author:
Aly Khan
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Perhaps, when we examine the causes of many social changes and political upheavals, we will find the marks of its presence and its principal ideals.
Author:
Ali Khamenei
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I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.
Author:
Bianca Jagger
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A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.
Author:
Robert Hutchins
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Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.
Author:
Edward Howe
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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.
Author:
David Horowitz
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Ideals are the worlds masters.
Author:
J. Holland
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I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.
Author:
George Grosz
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My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.
Author:
Gordon Getty
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Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.
Author:
Patrick Geddes
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The New Deal was going to redistribute the national income according to ideals of social and economic justice.
Author:
Garet Garrett
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Organized Christianity has probably done more to retard the ideals that were its founder's than any other agency in the world.
Author:
Richard Gallienne
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From slavery to segregation, we remember that America did not always live up to its ideals. In fact, we often fell far short of them. But we also learned that fundamental to our national character is the drive to live out the true meaning of our creed.
Author:
Bill Frist
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Anyone determined to find another person or group inferior can always find whole lists of grounds that demonstrate inferiority because we are all inferior to the ideals of humanness we have erected.
Author:
Marilyn French
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I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
Author:
Anne Frank
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I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Author:
Anne Frank
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It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Author:
Anne Frank
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Our brave soldiers and support personnel are engaged in a battle as important as any the United States has ever before waged, for the success of democracy in Iraq is a crucial test of the ideals this Nation was founded upon.
Author:
Virginia Foxx
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I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.
Author:
C. Forester
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The reality is we talk a lot about it, but we really don't give everyone an opportunity to buy into it, and this combines both the best of Republican and Democratic ideals.
Author:
Harold Ford
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In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.
Author:
Mark Foley
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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.
Author:
Terence Fisher
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Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.
Author:
Charles Edison
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You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising.
Author:
Norman Douglas
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America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.
Author:
John Doolittle
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Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
Author:
Walt Disney
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Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
Author:
Walt Disney
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Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Author:
Cecil DeMille
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Every society rests in the last resort on the recognition of common principles and common ideals, and if it makes no moral or spiritual appeal to the loyalty of its members, it must inevitably fall to pieces.
Author:
Christopher Dawson
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In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.
Author:
Noam Chomsky
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There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.
Author:
Gilbert Chesterton
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But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action.
Author:
Joshua Chamberlain
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Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects of our policy and other ideals. Through the establishment of national parks, for instance.
Author:
Barbara Castle
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Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.
Author:
Barbara Castle
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Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England.
Author:
Karel Capek
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Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.
Author:
Robert Byrd
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America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago.
Author:
Steve Buyer
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I am only doing now what I have ever done; and ever will continue to do - that is adapting past experience to present reform in the light of high ideals and future objects.
Author:
John Burns
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Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.
Author:
Ralph Bunche
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All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real integrity. Tougher still is to live up to the ideals of your dedicated fans.
Author:
Billy Bragg
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
Author:
Christian Bovee
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
Author:
W. Bois
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Our freedoms were born in the ideals of the Enlightenment and the musket fires of an historic revolution.
Author:
John Boehner
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Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.
Author:
Daniel Barenboim
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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?
Author:
Henry Bannerman
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The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading memories. Ideals that once commanded great loyalty are now taken for granted.
Author:
Jan Balkenende
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I think it's really terrifying that a country based on the foundations and ideals of God, is now systematically removing God from everything. Everything!
Author:
Stephen Baldwin
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Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.
Author:
Sai Baba
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Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.
Author:
Kevyn Aucoin
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If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.
Author:
Susan Anthony
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All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.
Author:
Maya Angelou
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When you stop having dreams and ideals - well, you might as well stop altogether.
Author:
Marian Anderson
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Our ideals are our better selves.
Author:
Amos Alcott
