"You have to recognize the realities of the world, and the realities of the world tend to be unpleasant, discouraging and depressing.
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Selected Quotes of Peter Viereck
"I can think of nothing more gallant, even though again and again we fail, than attempting to get at the facts; attempting to tell things as they really are. For at least reality, though never fully attained, can be defined. Reality is that which, when you don’t believe in it, doesn’t go away.
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