Falling in love is very real, but I used to shake my head when people talked about soul mates, poor deluded individuals grasping at some supernatural ideal not intended for mortals but sounded pretty in a poetry book. Then, we met, and everything changed, the...
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E.a. Bucchianeri
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.
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H.l. Mencken
The idealist hopes. The romantic sees doom. The postmodernist sees doom and hopes.
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Bauvard
One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them.
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Susan Neiman
I prefer truth-based entertaining idealism.
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Toba Beta
More Quotes By Bill Moyers
Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.
Freedom begins the moment you realize someone else has been writing your story and it's time you took the pen from his hand and started writing it yourself.
In marriage, everyday you love, and everyday you forgive. It is an ongoing sacrament, love and forgiveness
When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
