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«A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.»
Author: Don Marquis (Columnist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: had, listen, many, optimists, pessimist, Pessimists
«Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.»
Author: G. B. Stern | About: Optimism, Pessimism, Society | Keywords: Airplanes, contribute, invents, optimist, optimists, parachute, parachutes, parachuting, pessimist, Pessimists
«Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right.»
Author: James Reston (Journalist) | About: Optimism | Keywords: optimists, stick with, Tough Enough
«Cynics are well-informed optimists»
Author: Jeff Frieden | Keywords: Cynics, informed, informing, informs, optimists, well-informed
«Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past»
Author: Lewis Mumford (Writer) | About: Traditions | Keywords: optimists, Pessimists, traditionalist, Traditionalists
«Children are born optimists and we slowly educate them out of their heresy»
Author: Louise Imogen Guiney | About: Children, Optimism | Keywords: educate, heresy, optimists
«It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side»
Author: Molly Ivins | About: Cynicism | Keywords: argue, Cynics, evidence, optimists, smarter, sound
«Americans are optimists. They hope they'll be wealthy someday - and they're positive they can get one more brushful of paint out of an empty can.»
Author: Bern Williams | About: America and Americans, Optimism | Keywords: optimists, wealthy
«Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future, challenge the improbable and attain the impossible.»
Author: William Arthur Ward | Keywords: enhance, enhancing, enrich, enriching, improbable, optimists
«Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists»
Author: Mark Twain (Humorist, Lecturer, Writer) | About: Optimism | Keywords: bigamist, bigamists, optimists
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