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"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem."
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"None could be the most perfect. If indeed any, it is only perfect."
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"Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds."
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"The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous."
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"If everyone in the world sat quietly at the same time, closed their eyes and concentrated as hard as they could on peace and goodwill, all the killing and cruelty in the world would continue. And probably increase."
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"I prefer truth-based entertaining idealism."
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"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice."
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"Sadly enough, individual liberty remains the ideal of revolutionary thinkers even in the 21st Century."
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"Idealizing life is surely quite unrealistic, however, it is much better than living in constant despair."
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"Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism."
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"The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest."
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"If you do not think about your future, you cannot have one."
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"A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else."
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"Love has no age, no limit; and no death."
Love

"One's eyes are what one is, one's mouth is what one becomes."
Identity

"Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed."
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"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem."
Idealism

"Beginnings are always messy."
Beginning

"There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible."
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"When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different."
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"Headlines twice the size of the events."
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