Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes pr

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive. – William F. Buckley

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Dont use that foreign word ideals. We have that excellent native word lies. – Henrik Ibsen

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An idealist believes the short run doesnt count. A cynic believes the long run doesnt matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. – Sydney J. Harris

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We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world. – A.E. Housman

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Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are. – Albert Camus

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