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Considering the millions of informers registered, people working for the Stasi ranged from simple opportunists, to people believing they were defending noble ideas, to (yes) cynical murderers.
So that's American exceptionalism, an exceptionalism based on noble ideas, ideas that it holds itself to even when it falls short of them.
There's always the expectation that the victimized Other is the one that covers the distance, that has the noble ideas; I disagree with this expectation".
Here Jean Louise, no longer going by Scout, is in a state of extreme doubt about the noble ideas the first book seemed to espouse.
At a certain point, it becomes impossible to resist asking, What is it that makes the noble ideas embodied in these communities so fragile, and so apparently unattractive?
As with the theory of communitarian democracy that was "the next big thing" in democratic theory a decade ago, noble ideas have a way of bouncing off the deeply ingrained habits of American political life.
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It's a very noble idea".
What a novel and noble idea.
Secularism is a noble idea but in practice.
"It is noble idea, and it may work," he said.
The noble idea of limiting the Baseball Hall of Fame to the truly elite is a fantasy.
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