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“You know, in an ideal world, people would just be intrigued and go and see a film without knowing anything about it, because that's where you're going to have the most experience of a film, the biggest, the most revelation of a film. But at the same time, I think there are benefits of having seen a trailer where you actually look forward to seeing moments in a film knowing that they're coming up. I don't know which is better.”

People Thinking Knows World Looks Moments Film Knowing Seeing Benefits Ideals Revelations Intrigued Trailers Ideal World

Author:Duncan Jones

“Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.”

Thinking Men Want Moments Happiness Lying Fall Plans Ideals Simplicity Pursuit Contentment

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Monotheism at Sinai, primitive Christianity, messianic socialism: these are the three supreme moments in which Western culture is presented with what Ibsen termed "the claims of the ideal." These are the three stages, profoundly interrelated, through which Western consciousness is forced to experience the blackmail of transcendence.”

Moments Culture Three Consciousness Christianity Stage Ideals Claims Western Supreme Socialism Primitive Transcendence Western Culture Blackmail Monotheism Sinai Ibsen

Author:George Steiner

“The fear of AIDS imposes on an act whose ideal is an experience of pure presentness (and a creation of the future) a relation to the past to be ignored at one's peril. Sex no longer withdraws its partners, if only for a moment, from the social. It cannot be considered just a coupling; it is a chain, a chain of transmission, from the past.”

Ifs Moments Past Social Sex Creation Pure Ideals Relation Aids Partners Chains Ignored Peril Transmission Coupling

Author:Susan Sontag

“Never for a moment do we lay aside our mistrust of the ideals established by society, and of the convictions which are kept by it in circulation. We always know that society is full of folly and will deceive us in the matter of humanity. ... humanity meaning consideration for the existence and the happiness of individual human beings.”

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Author:Albert Schweitzer

“There is no such thing as an ideal man. The ideal man is the man you love at the moment.”

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Author:Francoise Sagan

“This insinuation of the interests of the self into even the most ideal enterprises and most universal objectives, envisaged in moments of highest rationality, makes hypocrisy an inevitable by product of all virtuous endeavor.”

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Book:Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)

Source: Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)