The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.
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There are people in our society who should be separated and discarded. I think its one of the tendencies of the liberal community to feel that every person in a nation of over 200 million people can be made into a productive citizen. Im realist enough to believe this cant be. Were always going to have our prisons, were always going to have our places of preventive detention for psychopaths, and were always going to have a certain number of people in our community who have no desire to achieve or who have no desire to even fit in an amicable way with the rest of society. And these people should be separated from the community, not in a callous way but they should be separated as far as any idea that their opinions shall have any effect on the course we follow.
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The theist fears reality, the agnostic isn't sure of it, the atheist accepts it and, the realist embraces it.
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In the defense of our nation, a president must be a clear-eyed realist. There are limits to the smiles and scowls of diplomacy. Armies and missiles are not stopped by stiff notes of condemnation. They are held in check by strength and purpose and the promise of swift punishment.
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The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails.
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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.
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The pessimist complains about the wind; The optimist expects it to change; And the realist adjusts the sails.
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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.
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The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light - and the next tunnel.
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In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
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A Cynic is what an Optimist calls a Realist
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In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
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Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.
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In order to be realist you must believe in miracles.
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I am not an optimist, but i am not a pessimist, what I am is a realist.
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If a pessimist is always right, is he a realist?
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