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"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem."
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"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice."
"Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world."
"If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?"
"An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous."
"The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were."
"There was something better in life than this rubbish, if only he could get to it-love-nobility-big spaces where passion clasped peace, spaces no science could reach, but they existed for ever, full of woods some of them, and arched with majestic sky and a friend. . ."
"A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still."
"That's the thing you girls never get. It doesn't matter if you just woke up, or just got done bawling, or just finished your make-up. When a guy's all love-sick over a chick, she looks exactly the same to him all the time: perfect."
"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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"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."
"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."
"He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral."
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