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An idealist believes the short run doesnt count. A cynic believes

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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Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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What we need most, is not so much to realize the ideal as to idealize the real. – Francis Herbert Hedge

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The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion. – Stanley Baldwin

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No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. – Sir Winston Churchill

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