Ideals Quotes
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History clearly shows that governments that have tried to contain, regulate, or otherwise usurp capital have failed. It is the same with brainpower; no one has a monopoly on brainpower. Controlling brainpower is like herding cats. Brainpower creates capital, and capital fuels brainpower. It is a fundamental dynamic principle. Great ideas, solutions, insights, or inventions will develop only where they are nurtured and properly rewarded.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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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.
Walt Disney
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Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to be incapable of content with the anthologies of all the world besides.
William Ernest Henley
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We are not a nation that says, 'Don’t ask, don’t tell.' We are a nation that says, 'Out of many, we are one.' We are a nation that welcomes the service of every patriot. We are a nation that believes that all men and women are created equal. Those are the ideals that generations have fought for. Those are the ideals that we upheld today.
Barack Obama
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Imagine your ideal future. Visualize yourself as if your life were perfect in every respect.
Brian Tracy
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No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.
William Butler Yeats
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For me a work of art must be an elevated interpretation of nature. The search for the ideal has been the purpose of my life. In landscape or seascape, I love above all the poetic motif.
William-Adolphe Bouguereau
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I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.'
Michael Caine
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From my Christian formation've gotten my ideals and technique Gandhi action.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I feel we must all exert ourselves to the utmost to see that the ideals and hopes held by Alfred Nobel, whom we commemorate today, do not fail from lack of purpose on the part of scientists.
Howard Florey
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We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of superstitions. Religious belief seems to become mere superstitious credulity if we admit any relationship with magic. On the other hand our anthropological and ethnographical material makes it extremely difficult to separate the two fields.
Ernst Cassirer
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A man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it.
William Greenough Thayer Shedd
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Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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It doesn't suffice to knock the state, to destroy the ideals. Something has to replace those ideals if they're taken away.
Murray Head
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Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America...
Walt Disney
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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
Albert Einstein
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American power in the world relies on these ideals of openness and critical debate.
Joseph Nye
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Who can forget the music of the French composer Germaine Tailleferre? These are just a few composers whose aesthetic ideals we all share, and there are many more women creators writing stunning and exciting music, and I wish I had space to list them all!
Barbara Harbach
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Freedom without ideals does more harm than good.
Arturo Graf
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Don't use that foreign word: ideals. We have the excellent native word: lies.
Henrik Ibsen
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A fraternity is an association of men, selected in their college days by democratic processes, because of their adherence to common ideals and aspirations.
Newton D. Baker
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Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.
George Bernard Shaw
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In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.
Herbert Spencer
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If I can finish a cartoon in 20 minutes, then that's the ideal editorial cartoon - it's to the point.
Paul Conrad