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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Mark Twain

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I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.

Luis Barragan

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To be an ideal guest, stay at home.

E. W. Howe

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Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

George Sand

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Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Robert Kennedy

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There's really no way to be perfect. Perfectionism is a silly trait to have, so in a lot of ways that inspired the world of 'Divergent', in which everyone is striving toward that ideal and falling short of it.

Veronica Roth

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Anorexia is a response to cultural images of the female body — waiflike, angular — that both capitulates to the ideal and also mocks it, strips away all the ancillary signs of sexuality, strips away breasts and hips and butt and leaves in their place a garish caricature, a cruel cartoon of flesh and bone.

Caroline Knapp

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The ideal of calm exists in a sitting cat.

Jules Renard

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An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

Booth Tarkington

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My ideal man is faithful, honest, and a gentleman who knows how to treat women.

Irina Shayk

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In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

Simone de Beauvoir

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Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

B. R. Ambedkar

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I'd be just as happy being a midwife. That's my ideal job.

Allison Anders

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Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.

Sarah Bernhardt

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