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Grant me my supposition that Fone Bone, as the poetically minded Idealist, is particularly susceptible to this sort of hyper-idealized type of romance, and read this next comment from De Rougemont:
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'Idealist' - a long-discontinued program developed for Windows by the publishers Blackwell - was taken as a source of inspiration.
KDE.news agkdb 2010
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It seems like the eternal debate of the "Idealist" vs the "Realist."
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Thus every generation is either "Idealist" (those who made the Revolution, the Civil War, the New Deal and the 1960s 'counterculture), "Reactive" (those who created governments, oil companies and the literature of the 1920s), "Civic" (James Madison and the World War II crowd) or "Adaptive" (cynical pragmatists, from Daniel Webster through Michael J. Fox).
The Generation Game 2008
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The "Idealist" name got applied to that temperament because these are the folks whose internal motivation is always toward trying to approach some idealized perfect self.
The 99 2006
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This stern painting of Hegel, painted by Jakob Schlesinger in1831, is probably the most famous image of the German 'Idealist'.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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Yes, and it's about time. &you is powered by Johnson & Johnson in partnership with VolunteerMatch, Idealist, GuideStar, Network for Good, and Do Something.
Robert J. Rosenthal: What's Next in Cause-Related Marketing: The Power and Potential of Platforms Robert J. Rosenthal 2011
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Yes, and it's about time. &you is powered by Johnson & Johnson in partnership with VolunteerMatch, Idealist, GuideStar, Network for Good, and Do Something.
Robert J. Rosenthal: What's Next in Cause-Related Marketing: The Power and Potential of Platforms Robert J. Rosenthal 2011
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Yes, and it's about time. &you is powered by Johnson & Johnson in partnership with VolunteerMatch, Idealist, GuideStar, Network for Good, and Do Something.
Robert J. Rosenthal: What's Next in Cause-Related Marketing: The Power and Potential of Platforms Robert J. Rosenthal 2011
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Idealist and romanticist that I was and always had been in spite of my analytical nature, yet I had failed till now in grasping much of the physical characteristics of love.
Chapter 27 2010
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