We have come tardily to the tremendous task of cleaning up our environment. We should have moved with similar zeal at least a decade ago. But no purpose is served by post-mortems. With visionary zeal but the greatest realism, we must now address ourselves to the vast problems that confront us.
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Never deceive the media or the public. Credibility is all we have to go on. Nothing gets done without total commitment and outrage mixed with political realism. Never assume anything: Check everything out yourself, at the source. Establish the credibility that when we start something, we finish it. With such track record, we then move to bigger struggles and more significant victories. No congressional bill or legal gimmickry by itself will save the animals. The courts can, at best, open up the possibility for us to intervene in defense of animals, but the courts will not act until effective protests disrupt the system's orderly operation.
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While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
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Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men
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Cynical realism—it's the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
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Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change because if it does change then it won’t have anything to complain about.
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Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real.
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I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.
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Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work.
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Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.
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Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else.
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After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.
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Realism is just an excuse for pessimism.
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