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I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really read more
I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.
Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.
Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses.
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
Be an optimist -- at least until they start moving animals in pairs to Cape Canaveral.
Be an optimist -- at least until they start moving animals in pairs to Cape Canaveral.
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. read more
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you've got read more
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you've got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows read more
The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little
A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
