“ In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles. ”
- David Ben Gurion- Copy
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“ Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort. ”
- William Gibson- Copy
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“ Nuclear war is inevitable, says the pessimists; Nuclear war is impossible, says the optimists; Nuclear war is inevitable unless we make it impossible, says the realists. ”
- Sydney J. Harris- Copy
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“ The realist is the man, who having weighed all the visible factors in a given situation and having found that the odds are against him, decides that fighting is useless. ”
- Raoul De Sales- Copy
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“ In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word "experience" have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.'. ”
- Sidney J. Harris- Copy
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“ I'm a realist, I'm not an optimist. I don't want false hope. I don't know where this is going for me. ”
- Clay Aiken- Copy
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“ In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles. ”
- Henry Christopher Bailey- Copy
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“ The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of. ”
- Bertolt Brecht- Copy
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“ The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly… which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties — he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties. ”
- Dr. Norman Vincent Peale- Copy
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