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idealism
«It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term activism, which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. We made giving exciting.»
«Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look back.»
«One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating. This is not because they are callous or personally inhuman: it is because they live in and accept a society which is incapable of knowing what a human life is worth.»
Author: John Berger
(Painter)
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«No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
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act on, idealism, idealistic, In Our Time, motives, paying, penalty, shove, shoved, shoves, shove it, shoving
«Perhaps women have always been in closer contact with reality than men: it would seem to be the just recompense for being deprived of idealism.»
Author: Germaine Greer
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closer, contact, deprived, deprived of, idealism, recompense, recompenses, recompensing
«I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.»
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
(Vice President)
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halls, humanness, idealism, institution, profile, profiles, profiling
«It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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Materialism
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get into, hallucination, hallucinations, idealism, Pastor, pastors, visions
«No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
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costly, folly, idealism, intolerant, intolerant of