They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy which they honestly imagine to be moral indignation, patriotic passion or some equally allowable emotion, it may be an innocent Negro, a Jew like Leo Frank, a harmless half-witted German; a Christ-like idealist of the type of Debs, an enthusiastic reformer like Emma Goldman.
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I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
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Idealist: a cynic in the making.
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Bush Sr. was a jerk, Quayle an idiot, Clinton was atrocious and disgusting, most of those who persecuted him were hypocritical, Gore is shallow and weak, Bradley is an idealist, Bush Jr. a fool, and all of the independent candidates act like they're on drugs.
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Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
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I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.
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The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.
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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.
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If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you have no heart, but if you are still an idealist by the time you are thirty, you don't have a head
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An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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I'm an idealist without illusions.
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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world
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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
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The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does n...
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