"I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism."
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"I've always been the opposite of a paranoid. I operate as if everyone is part of a plot to enhance my well-being."
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"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."
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"The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole."
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"Don't ask 'Why', ask instead, 'Why not'."
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"Buy not on optimism, but on arithmetic."
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"Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning."
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"However, optimism is highly valued, socially and in the market; people and firms reward the providers of dangerously misleading information more than they reward truth tellers. One of the lessons of the financial crisis that led to the Great Recession is that there are periods in which competition, among experts and among organizations, creates powerful forces that favor a collective blindness to risk and uncertainty."
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"The market is a pendulum that forever swings between unsustainable optimism (which makes stocks too expensive) and unjustified pessimism (which makes them too cheap). The intelligent investor is a realist who sells to optimists and buys from pessimists."
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"Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable."
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"For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity."
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"No person ever ended his eyesight by looking on the bright side."
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"And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey."
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"May all of you as Americans never forget your heroic origins, never fail to seek Divine guidance, and never lose your natural God-given optimism."
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"I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable as I was to feel the least particle of confidence in my ability to speak and act like a human being, I kept my solitary agonies locked in my breast. I kept my melancholy and my agitation hidden, careful lest any trace should be left exposed. I feigned an innocent optimism; I gradually perfected myself in the role of the farcical eccentric."
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"Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul."
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"My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud."
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"Optimism is the opium of the people."
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"Sorrow, anger and resentment look back, worry looks around, while faith, hope, and optimism look to the future."
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"The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - some times pervasive, some times specific to a company or industry. We want to do business in such an environment, not because we like pessimism but because we like the prices it produces. It's optimism that is the enemy of the rational buyer."
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