“This is the world as it is. This is where you start.”
Saul D. Alinsky (1909–1972) American community organizer and writer
“It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling…”
— V.S. Naipaul, book Magic Seeds
Source: Magic Seeds
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Quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern, https://books.google.com/books?id=zlMxAAAAIAAJ ed. Tryon Edwards, F. B. Dickerson Company (1908), p. 23.