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“A fraternity is an association of men, selected in their college days by democratic processes, because of their adherence to common ideals and aspirations.”

Men Process Common College Ideals Democratic Aspiration Association Selected Fraternity Adherence Democratic Process College Days

Author:Newton D. Baker

“All genuine ideals have one thing in common: they express the desire for something which is not yet accomplished but which is desirable for the purpose of the growth and happiness of the individual.”

Desire Purpose Individual Growth Common One Thing Ideals Genuine Accomplished Desirable

Book:Escape from Freedom

Source: Escape from Freedom

“We live in the age of "Everything Has Rights." Now, I'm not denying that the concept of rights is valid, but I wonder whatever happened to obligations? One rarely hears the term anymore. Indeed, have you ever heard of a "human obligations movement?" The very ideal that holds a democracy together--the willingness to make personal sacrifice for the common good--is going quickly by the wayside.”

Humans Age Together Term Common Responsibility Wonder Democracy Rights Happened Heard Sacrifice Movement Concepts Ideals Obligation Willingness Common Good Personal Sacrifice

Author:John Rosemond

“To captivate our varied and worldwide audience of all ages, the nature and treatment of the fairy tale, the legend, the myth have to be elementary, simple. Good and evil, the antagonists of all great drama in some guise, must be believably personalized. The moral ideals common to all humanity must be upheld. The victories must not be too easy. Strife to test valor is still and will always be the basic ingredient of the animated tale, as of all screen entertainments.”

“Indeed, the ideal for a well-functioning democratic state is like the ideal for a gentleman's well-cut suit it is not noticed. For the common people of Britain, Gestapo and concentration camps have approximately the same degree of reality as the monster of Loch Ness. Atrocity propaganda is helpless against this healthy lack of imagination.”

“Although we may come from vastly different stories and very different walks of life, we are one people who possess common values and common ideals; who celebrate individual excellence but also share a recognition that together, we can accomplish great and wonderful things we can't accomplish alone.”

“America can restore its strengths as the world-respected land of opportunity by returning to open-society principles. An open society invests in people and new ideas, rewards talent and hard work, values dialogue and learns from dissent, operates to high standards with transparent information, looks for common ground, sees problems as opportunities for creative change, and encourages those who are fortunate to help others get the same chance, because service is the highest ideal. With such standards in mind, America the Beautiful can return to its admired role as America the Principled.”

Source: America the Principled: 6 Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again

“We are not born of the passions of war or of the fervours of revolution. And we grew quietly into the realization that, set as we are in a great wide land, with all our differences, there are certain traditions and ideals which we had in common, and which could best be preserved in a distinct society of our own.”

War Certain Passion Born Differences Common Land Revolution Grew Ideals Tradition Wide Realization

Author:Vincent Massey

“Orchids manufacture their intricate devices from the common components of ordinary flowers, parts usually fitted for very different functions. If God had designed a beautiful machine to reflect his wisdom and power, surely he would not have used a collection of parts generally fashioned for other purposes. Orchids were not made by an ideal engineer; they are jury-rigged from a limited set of available components. Thus, they must have evolved from ordinary flowers.”

Source: The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

“The Union has become not merely a physical union of states, but rather a spiritual union in common ideals of our people. Within it is room for every variety of opinion, every possible experiment in social progress. Out of such variety comes growth, but only if we preserve and maintain our spiritual solidarity.”

People Ifs States Spiritual Social Growth Rooms Common Opinion Progress Ideals Unions Experiments Variety Preserves Solidarity Social Progress

Book:Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President

Source: Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President

“We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never meet. Instead we should be writing for our ideal reader.”

Should Writing Trying Common Talent Reader Waste Ideals

Author:Julia Cameron

“That is why all great men are modest: they consistently measure themselves not in comparison to other people but to the idea of perfection ever present in their minds, an ideal infinitely clearer and greater than any common people have, and they also realize how far they are from fulfilling their ideal.”

People Men Mind Ideas Realizing Common Greater Ideals Perfection Great Men Comparison Consistently Modest Fulfilling

Author:Giacomo Leopardi

“I try and take everyone's ideals, common morals, flip them around, make people look at them differently, question them, so that you're not always taking things for granted.”

People Trying Looks Common Moral Ideals Granted Flip Taking Things For Granted

Author:Marilyn Manson

“With a full century of contrary proof in our possession and despite our demonstrated capacity for cooperative teamwork, some among us seem to accept the shibboleth of an unbridgeable gap between those who hire and those who are employed. We miserably fail to challenge the lie that what is good for management is necessarily bad for labor; that for one side to profit, the other must be depressed. Such distorted doctrine is false and foreign to the American scene where common ideals and purpose permit us a common approach toward the common good.”

“Poetry, at all times, exercises two distinct functions: it may reveal, it may unveil to every eye, the ideal aspects of common thingsor it may actually add to the number of motives poetic and uncommon in themselves, by the imaginative creation of things that are ideal from their very birth.”

May Two Eye Poetry Imagination Common Numbers Creativity Creation Poet Birth Exercise Aspect Ideals Function Add All Time Motive Poetic Imaginative Uncommon

Author:Walter Pater

“The ideal form of common stock analysis leads to a valuation of the issue which can be compared with the current price to determine whether or not the security is an attractive purchase.”

Form Common Issues Security Ideals Investing Determine Currents Analysis Attractive Valuation

Book:The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel

“An ideal is an unselfish aspiration. Its purpose is the general welfare not only of this but of future generations. It is a thing of the spirit. It is a generous and humane desire that all men may share equally in a common good. Our ideals are the cement, which binds human society.”

Source: Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President

“In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of organisations in which they can gain information, develop and articulate their thoughts, and act constructively to achieve common ends.”

Kind Ends Form Individual Social Common Achieve Information Gains Concern Ideals Focused Collections Lacking Organisation Social Control

Author:Noam Chomsky

“No university ought to be merely a national institution....The universities should have their common ideals, they should have their common obligations toward each other. They should be independent of the governments of the countries in which they are situated. They should not be institutions for the training of an efficient bureaucracy, or for equipping scientists to get the better of foreign scientists; they should stand for the preservation of learning, for the pursuit of truth, and in so far as men are capable of it, the attainment of wisdom.”

Men Should Country Government Common Ought Capable Training Ideals Should Have Scientist Independent Institutions University Pursuit Obligation Efficient Preservation Bureaucracy Attainment

Author:T. S. Eliot

“I believe it is our values and our ideals that ultimately bind us together as a nation. But it is the English language which serves as the means by which we can communicate these values to those around us. Our common language, English, is that which unites us.”

Believe Mean Together Values Language I Believe Nations Common Ideals Communicate English Language Common Language

Author:Asa Hutchinson

“The instinctive need to be the member of a closely knit group fighting for common ideals may grow so strong that it becomes inessential what these ideals are.”

Needs May Fighting Strong Grows Common Groups Members Ideals

Book:On aggression

Source: On aggression

“A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.”

World Mean Ideas Understanding Community Common Communication Ideals Tradition Wave Dialogue Resolution Globes Facility Win Win Means Of Communication Conflicting Ideas

Author:Robert M. Hutchins

“If we want the freedom to take part in our bit of differentness, then we must allow others their rights to take part in theirs, as long as they do not harm the person or property of a non-consenting other, of course. IT'S JUST common sense. It's also constitutional and it forms the cornerstone of the American ideal: free individual expression, tolerance and compassion.”

Ifs Want Persons Long Form Courses Individual Bits Common Compassion Rights Expression Ideals Property Harm Tolerance Common Sense Cornerstones Individual Expression

Author:Peter McWilliams

“Most of us, however committed we are to our ideals, will find ourselves every now and again reading an attention-grabbing headline from the Daily Mail or some other lowest-common denominator. That's not the same thing as frequenting a site like the white supremacist Stormfront.”

Reading White Common Attention Ideals Committed Mail Site Lowest Headlines Common Denominator Grabbing Lowest Common Denominator Daily Mail

Author:Mallory Ortberg

“You can't have responsibility and you can't have us living up to our ideals unless it's based on a fairly common acceptance of truth, of what is true - what is the truth here?”

Common Responsibility Acceptance Ideals

Author:John F. Kerry

“By playing down to the idea of the common man, dogmatic political authority exploits him... So the ideal of innate aristocracy of which hour forefathers dreamed is betrayed for votes in the name of democracy.”

Men Ideas Political Names Hours Common Democracy Authority Ideals Vote Betrayed Innate Exploits Aristocracy Common Man Forefathers Dogmatic

Author:Frank Lloyd Wright

“We must accept the fact that transport and communications will bring the world in close relations and the youth of the world should have standards and ideals in common.”

World Should Facts Common Accepting Youth Communication Standards Ideals Should Have Relation Transport

Author:Juliette Gordon Low

“Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”

Giving Trying Age Lost Realizing Common Wonderful Youth Listening Ideals Gold Aim Ignorant Hopeless Sensations Vulgar Tedious Wonderful Life

Book:Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: Picture of Dorian Gray

“I have problems with a religion which says that faith in itself is enough for a ticket to heaven. In other words, that the ideal is your ability to manipulate your own common sense to accept something your intellect rejects. It's the same model of intellectual submission that dictatorships have used throughout time, the concept of a higher reasoning without any obligation to discharge the burden of proof.”

“The end of the Cold War removed the immediate causes of whole destruction but not the threat contained in our knowledge. We must tame this knowledge with the ideals of justice, caring, and compassion summoned from our common human spiritual and moral heritage, if we are to live in peace and serenity in the twenty-first century.”

“The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the great enterprises and ideals of American society.”

“Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about it; but the common lot of men is not heroic.”

Men May Character Common Duty Hero Highest Ideals Heroic Commonplace

Book:Character

Source: Character

“Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at any rate, without the distortion of prejudice, and reasons from them in accordance with the dictates of sound judgment. And science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.”

Reason Facts Science Sound Common Judgment Ideals Logic Accounts Prejudice Rate Common Sense Observation Accurate Distortion Fallacy Sound Judgment

Book:An Introduction to the Study of Zoology

Source: An Introduction to the Study of Zoology

“All men who have ideals . . . live by some kind of faith, by committing themselves to some kind of loyalty which is not universally recognized as the common property of all thinking men. They must have something-something outside themselves, to make them feel life is worth living, that good rather than evil is the explanation of the world.”

Thinking Men World Feels Kind Life Is Evil Common Ideals Property Loyalty Explanation Live By Worth Living Thinking Man Life Is Worth Living

Book:In Soft Garments: Classic Catholic Apologetics

Source: In Soft Garments: Classic Catholic Apologetics

“Niepokalanow is a home like Nazareth. The Father is God the Father, the mother and mistress of the home is the Immaculata, the firstborn son and our brother is Jesus in the most Holy Sacrament of the altar. All the younger brothers try to imitate the elder Brother in love and honor towards God and the Immaculata, our common parents, and from the Immaculata they try to love the divine elder Brother, the ideal of sanctity who deigned to come down from heaven to be incarnated in her and to live with us in the tabernacle.”

Trying Home Mother Father Jesus Heaven Parent Common Divine Son Brother Honor Holy Ideals Sacraments Elders Mistress Altars Sanctity Younger Brother Nazareth Love And Honor

Author:Maximilian Kolbe

“Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.”

People Happiness Common Ideals Happy Love Each Other

Author:George Sand

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