"I understand the concept of optimism. But I think with me what you get is a lack of cynicism."
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"Any crusade requires optimism and the ambition to aim high"
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"It is important to possess a short-term pessimism and a long-term optimism."
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"It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true."
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"No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments."
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"Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism."
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"The secret to my success has been optimism tempered by anger."
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"Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks."
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"He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward."
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"There's a new and virulent cultural virus ripping through the world. . . . The symptoms of those infected include attacks of optimism, strong feelings of community, lower stress levels and outbreaks of pronoia - the sneaking feeling that someone is conspiring behind their backs to help them."
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"Through training, practice, and a deep sense of optimism, architects see opportunities where others only see a void. This has been the driving principle behind Architecture for Humanity since our founding."
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"Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant - the digitalis of failure."
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"Every life is its own excuse for being, and to deny or refute the untrue things that are said of you is an error in judgment. All wrong recoils upon the doer, and the person who makes wrong statements about others is themselves to be pitied, not the person they vilify. It is better to be lied about than to lie. At the last no one can harm us but ourselves."
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"I've come through things that would have felled an ox. That fills me with optimism, not just for myself but for our particular species."
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"What most impressed me about Cuba was the optimism."
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"Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!"
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"Let us not bankrupt our today's by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow."
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"Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so."
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"There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature."
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"I believe any success in life is made by going into an area with a blind, furious optimism."
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