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When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Walk
Apt
Gutter
Idealists
Towers
Come
Very
Ivory
Straight
Downstairs
The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.
Anna Howard Shaw
Life
Truth
World
Progress
Men
Back
Dream
Higher
Idealists
Come
Ideals
Practical
Listen
Human
Being
Moves
Ponder
Human Life
Ever
Growth
Bring
Apply
It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.
Bertrand Russell
Fate
Destroys
Seems
Struggled
Idealists
Ideals
Obtain
Form
Which
Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
Emma Goldman
World
Enough
Enriched
Winds
Foolish
Throw
Advanced
Idealists
Caution
Mankind
True idealists are rare; they are the dedicated workers, who would, if need be, die at the stake.
Henry Williamson
Rare
Would
True
Idealists
Die
Stake
Workers
Dedicated
Who
Need
Too often people view idealists as naive.
Jacqueline Novogratz
People
Too
Naive
Idealists
Often
View
Children see things very well sometimes - and idealists even better.
Lorraine Hansberry
Better
Sometimes
See
Idealists
Well
Very
Children
Even
Things
There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.
Oswald Spengler
Time
Money
Proletarian
Slightest
Having
Fact
Leaders
Idealists
Operated
Without
Permitted
Suspicion
Movement
Being
Interests
Communist
Even
Among
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
Robert Anton Wilson
Everybody
Corrupt
Except
Idealists
Equally
Regarded
Themselves
Cynics
Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries. But question it we must.
Tim Jackson
Must
Idealists
Question
Questioning
Revolutionaries
Act
Deemed
Growth
Lunatics
I've never understood the division between so-called realists and so-called idealists.
Hillary Clinton
Never
Division
Between
Idealists
Understood
So-Called
Realists
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