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An optimist is a proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
Optimism
Ambrose Bierce

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An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.
Attitude
Changing Times

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For myself I am an optimistit does not seem to be much use being anything else.
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Winston Churchill

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I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Optimism
Winston Churchill

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Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.
Design
Sir Terence Conran

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I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
Optimism
Antonio Gramsci

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A writer should be a joyous optimist. Anything that implies rejection of life is wrong for a writer.
Writers and Writing
George Gribbon

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A pessimist is one who has been compelled to live with an optimist.
Pessimism
Elbert Hubbard

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A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.
Attitude
Jean De La Fontaine

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An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.
Optimism
Ring Lardner

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I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
Possibilities
Max Lerner

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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
Pessimism
Don Marquis

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An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.
Optimism
Don Marquis

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Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
Tradition
Lewis Mumford

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An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.
Optimism
George Jean Nathan

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The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist knows it.
Optimism
Julius Robert Oppenheimer

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In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.
Pessimism
Daniel Readon

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Youve got to be [an] optimist to be a Democrat, and youve got to be a humorist to stay one.
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Will Rogers

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In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you wake in the morning.
Optimism
Carl Sandburg

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There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
Optimism
Mark Twain

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Be an optimist -- at least until they start moving animals in pairs to Cape Canaveral.
Optimism
Source Unknown

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Don't be too optimistic. The light at the end of the tunnel may be another train.
Optimism
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun