ideals and idealism

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Fri 17 Jul 2020

Tech

Posted by PJ under change, despair, ideals and idealism, quote of the day, selfish, technology
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Random quote of the day:

“When did we begin to lose faith in our ability to effect change? Perhaps the demoralizing murders of John and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King scared the civic-minded young people of the 1960s right out of their idealism into despair and then, to indifference. Perhaps it was the 1980s when the opportunity inherent in the American Dream was distorted from the land of “we” to the land of “to hell with anybody else but me.” Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress.”

—Wynton Marsalis, interview, NBC.com, July 11, 2008

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Tue 10 Jul 2018

Idealism

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Random quote of the day:

“It’s not what you are, it’s what you don’t become that hurts. Idealism is a luxury for the very young.”

—Oscar Levant, Humoresque

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Thu 8 May 2014

Ideals

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Random quote of the day:

“If you believe in an ideal, you don’t own it—it owns you, and you certainly don’t want to freeze it at your own level for mercenary reasons.”

—Raymond Chandler, letter to Helga Greene, May 25, 1957

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Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Fri 8 Mar 2013

Ideals, he’s got ’em

Posted by PJ under ideals and idealism, movies, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

 

“You’re a man with ideals. Well, I guess I better be goin’ while you still got ‘em.”

—Mae West, My Little Chickadee

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Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Tue 20 Jul 2010

Touch meine liebe teddy

Posted by PJ under ideals and idealism, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The root of materialism is poverty; the well-fed remain idealists.”

—Karol Bunsch, quoted in Geary’s Guide to the World’s Great Aphorists

Disclaimer:  The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Siegfried and Roy, Leonard Maltin, or the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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