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Quote by Henrik Ibsen
Dont use that foreign word ideals. We have that excellent native w

Dont use that foreign word ideals. We have that excellent native word lies. – Henrik Ibsen

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It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. – Henrik Ibsen

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Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Idealism

Idealism increases in direct proportion to ones distance from the problem. – John Galsworthy

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Idealism

Ideals are the worlds masters. – Josiah Gilbert Holland

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Idealism

We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world. – A.E. Housman

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Most painters have painted themselves. So have most poets: not so palpably indeed, but more assiduously. Some have done nothing else. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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People don’t like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug. – Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Journal, 2 March 1861

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Civilization

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire—then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. Learn to separate the inconveniences from the real problems. You will live longer. – Sigmund Wollman, quoted by Robert Fulghum, Uh-Oh, 1991

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Sometimes when I listen to fellow progressives, I wonder if the only lesson we took away from the 04 elections is that politics is a word game. – Eric Liu

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