"Our ideals are our better selves."

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"Our ideals are our better selves."

Amos Bronson Alcott, American Educator

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"Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg!"

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"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 K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"When you get a principle on which everyone is agreed, you get the beginning of complacency and deterioration."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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"Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals."

Frederica Montseny, Spanish Politician

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"I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them."

Mae West, American Actress

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"Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word."

Dennis Potter, British Dramatist

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"It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit divorced from it they remain barren."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

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"Ideals are the worlds masters."

J. G. Holland, American Novelist

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