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«The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist.»
«The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out that this is the case. A negative opposition cannot be wholly effectual: there must be a competing idealism; something must be offered that is not only less objectionable but more desirable.»
«The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.»
«The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.»
«Living with a dog is messy - like living with an idealist»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken (Critic, Journalist) | About: Living | Keywords: idealist
«Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.»
«Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.»

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