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A realist is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been purified. A skeptic is an idealist who has gone through the fire and been burned.

Warren W. Wiersbe

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Warren W. Wiersbe
Age: 89 †
Born: 1929
Born: May 16
Died: 2019
Died: May 2
Pastor
Theologian
Writer
East Chicago
Indiana
Warren Wendall Wiersbe
Realist
Realism
Burned
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Gone
Purified
Idealist
Skeptic

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