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A man who calls bullshit fertilizer.
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Frank Dane

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

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

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

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

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

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Don't be too optimistic. The light at the end of the tunnel may be another train.
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Source Unknown

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

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I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
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William Faulkner

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

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

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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
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Jane Austen

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My sun sets to rise again.
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Robert Browning

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Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!
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Lord Alfred Tennyson

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One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
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Robert Frost

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Optimism is the content of small men in high places.
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Source Unknown

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Optimism is the opium of the people.
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Milan Kundera

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Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Ambrose Bierce

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Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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Colin Powell

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Success comes in cans, failure in can'ts.
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The happy ending is our national belief.
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Mary Mccarthy

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

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The place where optimism flourishes most is in the lunatic asylum.
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Havelock Ellis

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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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Francis H. Bradley

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

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