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Idealism + Pragmatism = Cynicism
Idealists of course are unpredictable. They tend to be the ones who turn bitter overnight, deceived by the lies they've told themselves.
-- Don DeLillo...
Ideally, there should be a gender transition movement.
Ideals are like stars. You will not succeed in touching them with your hands.
Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
-- Carl Schurz...
Ideals kill politicians, and politicians kill ideals.
Ideas are avoiding me in droves. -- R. B. Seato
Ideas are duty free.
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.
-- John Steinbeck...
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?
-- Josef Stali...

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