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Idealist: a cynic in the making.
Irving Layton
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Irving Layton
Canadian
Poet
Born:
Mar 12
,
1912
Died:
Jan 4
,
2006
Topics
Idealist
,
Making
,
Cynic
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Carl Sandburg
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The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
Eric Hoffer
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An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.
Henry Ford
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The Minimalists are idealist. They want to minimize themselves in favor of the ideal... But I just can't. You see, my paintings are not cool.
Agnes Martin
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Favor
Minimize
See
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The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
Irving Babbitt
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Leadership
People
Light
Prone
Unbounded
Idealist
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Plain
Plain People
Standards
Whole
The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other balance their lives.
Joyce Brothers
Love
Balance
Other
Finds
Idealist
Conformist
Social
Cynic
Help
Rebel
Each
Lives
Butterfly
I think now I'm more realistic, but I'm still very much an idealist.
Alden Ehrenreich
Realistic
Think
More
Idealist
Still
Very
Much
Now
An idealist is ahead of his time only in the sense that he is articulate. The same is true of a nation. For even primitive people, even effete races have a message for those above or below them. The heritage of the Ideal, however small can not be exhausted.
Ameen Rihani
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People
Exhausted
Nation
Sense
Heritage
Those
Above
Only
Small
He
True
Ideal
Idealist
Primitive
Message
However
His
Articulate
Same
Them
Races
Even
Below
I'm an idealist.
Bobby Cannavale
Idealist
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