Perhaps the more so, the more idealistic we are - as idealists don't do anything half-heartedly.
But both characters are scientific idealists who don't care to dirty their hands with money.
New York real estate is not for parvenus or idealists - it is a serious, hold-on-to-your-hat ride.
This group can be characterized as nothing more than idealists, or peaceniks as they've been formerly called.
Given the absurdity of their claims, the idealists were never able to garner mass support for their positions.
To wit: thinkers need doers to get things done, and idealists need number crunchers to tether them to reality.
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To fix this, Indonesia's idealists have been calling for a series of changes.
He and his team include conservative idealists who want to leave the Middle East more democratic than ever before.
Young idealists went out to the West Bank to put up impromptu settlements, which the army at first dismantled.
Questioning growth is deemed to be the act of lunatics, idealists and revolutionaries.
On the day of Turkes's death, parliament put out a report on links between Idealists, crime and the state.
Progressives were idealists and optimists, seeking an egalitarian Utopia and confident that schools were making good progress towards it.
But lucky for the idealists, they have been able to rely on the unwavering support of the unromantic pragmatists to implement their program.
Some idealists believed that a strong peace movement in Western Europe would inspire those behind the Iron Curtain to demand disarmament from their rulers too.
The article, however, had no mention of the many idealists working to solve problems in health, education, climate change and poverty that plague much of the globe.
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The story carries a sobering message for idealists, who would like to hear the violins play as their hero bravely does everything that is right and noble.
Everything from Great Depression Keynesians to Depression retreading Chicago School monatarists to Laffer Curve idealists have offered up and applied programs the last 8 years intended to stimulate growth.
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Unlike earlier philosophers and idealists, who believed that their languages could perfect humanity, modern conlangers tend to create their languages primarily as a hobby and a form of self-expression.
Often they are teachers, idealists, and advocates for change.
Shaggy, intense idealists, fond of demonstrations and leftish causes?
My own view of visionaries is that they are idealists: they form a picture of what they want the world to be in the future, and then strive to make it happen.
Some, with particularly prudent parents, have excess money in their college savings funds with which to spend their post-Ivy summers in Europe, the Far East or, for the idealists among them, Africa.
There was another pleasant surprise for liberal idealists on February 26th, when the UN Security Council unanimously agreed (along with other punitive measures) to tell the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to probe the Libyan crisis.
And even the dogged idealists privately admit that traditional right-wing policies such as corporal punishment (teachers disapproved of its abolition in 1987) and academic selection (they resisted comprehensives in the 1960s and 1970s) would make their jobs easier.
The 19th-century idealists who first dreamed of a united Europe assumed that Russia would be part of the new system: Victor Hugo's appeal in 1849 for European unity was addressed to Russia, as well as to France and Germany.
And within America, there has long been a tension between those who describe themselves as realists or idealists -- a tension that suggests a stark choice between the narrow pursuit of interests or an endless campaign to impose our values.
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