Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.

—Paul Eldridge

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About Paul Eldridge

Paul Eldridge (May 5, 1888 – July 26, 1982) was an American poet, novelist, short story writer and teacher.

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To have lived long does not necessarily imply the gathering of much wisdom and experience. A man who has pedaled twenty-five thousand miles on a stationary bicycle has not circled the globe. He has only garnered weariness.

—Paul Eldridge

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At the boy's level, hero worship gravitates toward the doer of spectacular deeds; on the average adult level, toward the wielder of power; and in the eyes of a more critical judgment, toward idealism and moral qualities.

—Dixon Wecter

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Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt… Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

—Robert Anton Wilson

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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.

—H. L. Mencken in Minority Report

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Dream in a pragmatic way.

—Aldous Huxley

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I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

—Carl Sandburg

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