Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosopher
"A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts."
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Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"A pessimist is a well-informed optimist."
Harold Wilson
Politician
"I'm an optimist, but I'm an optimist who takes his raincoat."
Abraham Lincoln
Political Leader
"I am an optimist because I don't see the point in being anything else."
Matt Smith
Actor
"I am and always will be the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes and the dreamer of improbable dreams."
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"I cannot be an optimist but I am a prisoner of hope."
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"Better to be an optimist who gets disappointed than a pessimist who has no hope."
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"We are optimists, until we are not."
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"I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself."
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"A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better."
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"An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed"
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"I'm an optimist about humanity in general, I suppose."
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"I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you."
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"I am not an optimist, but a great believer of hope."
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"I am fundamentally an optimist."
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"Let optimists rule the world."
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"...fry me an optimist for breakfast."
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"By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am."
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"I'm not an optimist. I'm a prisoner of hope."
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"I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature."
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"Now, I happen to be an optimist."
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"I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself."
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"Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive."
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"Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists"
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"I have always been an optimist, perhaps even too much."
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