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 An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
  Sydney J. Harris

 Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
  Helen Keller

 I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble
  Helen Keller

 Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
  William F. Buckley, Jr.

 Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
  William F. Buckley, Jr.

 Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.
  Aldous Huxley

 Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.
  Jacques Barzun

 Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.
  Jacques Barzun

 Idealist: One who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup
  Henry Louis Mencken

 Idealists...foolish enough to throw caution to the winds...have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
  Emma Goldman

 It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term activism, which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. We made giving exciting.
  Bob Geldof

 It went beyond idealism and that ridiculous term activism, which basically means talking about something but doing nothing. We made giving exciting.
  Bob Geldof

 Only the broken-hearted idealist can become a cynic.

 You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear; and you can't change human nature from intelligent self-interest into pure idealism - not in this life; and if you could, what would be left for paradise? Joseph G

 You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.
  D.H. Lawrence


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