"I don't at all search for an ideal woman, but several ideal women."
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"The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal."
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"Renunciation is always the ideal of every race; only other races do not know what they are made to do by nature unconsciously."
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"Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal."
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"Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better."
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"It is the mysterious touch of the ideal that animates and sustains the real, and through it alone we can discover and affirm the ideal."
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"American ideals do not require to be changed so much as they require to be understood and applied."
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"I have steadfastly refused to make concessions that would undermine my ideals."
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"Genius is talent provided with ideals."
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"Each model I have represents a type of ideal women to me."
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"The actual well seen is ideal."
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"Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash."
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"Death is never sweet, not even if it is suffered for the highest ideal."
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"The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself."
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"The superman is a premature ideal, one that presupposes man."
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"It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals."
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"Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal."
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"When a passion is not realized ... it fades away, or becomes ideal worship--Dante--Petrarch--that sort of thing!"
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"To do nothing and get something, formed a boy's ideal of a manly career."
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"My idealism has not abated, but I have witnessed it withering away nationwide, to the point where at least among the young, to have ideals is akin to being blinkered and oldfashioned."
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