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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal. ↗

— Calvin Coolidge

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Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you. ↗

— Elvis Costello

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Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal. ↗

— Gustave Courbet

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At least for me personally, I've always tried to do a really good job every day, with each interview, and treat each interview seriously, and make the person I'm speaking with feel comfortable, hopefully make it an ideal experience. ↗

— Katie Couric

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The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise. ↗

— Herbert Croly

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The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the actual achievement of the American nation points towards an adequate and fruitful definition of the democratic ideal. ↗

— Herbert Croly

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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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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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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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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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