#deal

The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal. ↗

— Herbert Croly

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The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

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My deal was that they would use a full-length picture of me in my underwear and a full-length picture of me all done up, and they would write about how long it took and how much it cost, because that was the whole point. It was very liberating. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

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Because I don't think it's very healthy to hold people to idealized views. I think that's a certain stage in life, something kids do. You have to go through that idealistic phase with your parents, but at a certain point, you need to see people as just people. ↗

— Joan Cusack

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There has been enough blood in the Balkans. Serbia is offering its hand. Let us turn to the future and not deal with the past. ↗

— Ivica Dacic

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It's so funny how my name has always been such a big deal. When I was growing up, my family was always moving. I had to meet new people all the time. And they'd laugh. ↗

— Calista Flockhart

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The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean. ↗

— John M. Ford

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These years of the Ecole Normale were an ordeal. Nothing was handed to me on the first try. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

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Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual. ↗

— Maureen Forrester

#conductors #deal #gone #great #great deal

The theologians have recognized that the ideal is the imitation of God. If we be a part of such an organic thing, this thing is God to us, as I am God to the cells that compose me. ↗

— Charles Fort

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