Quotes with ideal

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  • Orson Welles The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de  Sévigné The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.
    Marie de Rabutin-Chantal marquise de Sévigné
    French letter writer and aristocrat (1626 - 1696)
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  • Anne Sophie Swetchine The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.
    Anne Sophie Swetchine
    Russian writer (1782 - 1857)
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  • Bela Karolyi The ideal gymnast would be between 4 feet 7 and 5-2. I wouldn't be able to pinpoint an ideal height, however. It would be foolish to say that a gymnast above 5-2 could not be great.
    Bela Karolyi
    American gymnastics coach (1942 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • B. F. Skinner The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Italo Calvino The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Arthur Conan Doyle The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    British writer and medical doctor (1859 - 1930)
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  • Jean Rostand The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Aleister Crowley The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Albert Einstein The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • James Russell Lowell The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Aberjhani The ultimate test on the way to establishing an ideal civilization encouraging ideal human behavior was to look bravely beyond gender, color, ethnic origin, religious difference, and class distinctions to discover and honor the value of each unique individual.
    Aberjhani
    American historian, columnist and novelist (1957 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Calvin Coolidge There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton 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.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means; draw it all out, and hold him to it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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