Benjamin Graham
Investor, Author
"The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists."
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Fyodor Dostoevsky
Novelist, Philosopher
"In the realist, faith is not born from miracles, but miracles from faith."
George Carlin
Comedian, Actor
"I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist."
Esther Perel
Psychotherapist, Author
"Romantics value intensity over stability. Realists value security over passion. But both are often disappointed, for few people can live happily at either extreme."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Leader
"A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist."
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"The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also."
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"Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist."
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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."
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"I sing to the realists; people who accept it like it is."
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"It's funny, for a long time I would go watermelon-red and deny that I was a magical realist. It felt imprecise to me, a misrepresentation."
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"I don't want to say that in a place that's negative about what the fear is. I just want to be a realist."
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"An executive should be a realist; and no one is less realistic than the cynic."
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"I am a realist. I expect miracles."
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"If I am an agnostic, Calyxa, it's because I'm also a realist."
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"Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all."
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"He was a romantic in his own harsh way…yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did conquer all."
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"I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will."
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"men are not realists - only women are."
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"I like to think I'm some savage realist."
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"I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist. But I understand the word "cynic" has more than one meaning, and I see how I could be seen as cynical. "George, you're cynical." Well, you know, they say if you scratch a cynic you find a disappointed idealist. And perhaps the flame still flickers a little, you know?"
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