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Ancient Music in the Pines
“Be realistic: Plan for a miracle.”
Ancient Music in the Pines
“Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.”
                                        
                                        David Ben Gurion, as quoted in Psychosocial Care of the Dying Patient (1978) by Charles A. Garfield 
Misattributed
                                    
“Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles isn't a realist.”
                                        
                                        David Ben-Gurion, as quoted in Israel : Years of Crisis Years of Hope (1973) by Roman Frister,  p. 45 
Misattributed
                                    
“In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.”
                                        
                                        Interview on CBS, (5 October 1956) 
As quoted in Israel : Years of Crisis Years of Hope (1973) by Roman Frister, p. 45 
Variant: Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles isn't a realist.
                                    
                                        
                                         Nats ask Act MP to lay off Melissa Lee, Patrick, Gower, The New Zealand Herald, 23 May 2009, 2010-07-13 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10574128, 
About what she thought her chances were in the election in a Radio New Zealand interview 
Mount Albert by-election campaign, 2009
                                    
“I am not sure whether there can be a way of really understanding the miracle of thinking.”
Source: Productive thinking, 1945, p. 227
“For all those who believe, expect a miracle.”
Source: Linda Goodman's Star Signs
If Japan Can...Why Can't We? (1980)
                                        
                                         Nats ask Act MP to lay off Melissa Lee, Patrick, Gower, The New Zealand Herald, 23 May 2009, 2010-07-13 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/politics/news/article.cfm?c_id=280&objectid=10574128, 
After the radio interview 
Mount Albert by-election campaign, 2009
                                    
 
                            
                        
                        
                         
                            
                        
                        
                         
                            
                        
                        
                         
                            
                        
                        
                         
                            
                        
                        
                        