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• When a country is strong… it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers.

  Michel Houellebecq

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  The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.

  Khalil Gibran

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  Tags in Optimism, Pessimism

• Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it’s all at, it’s what lights the fire.

  Bruce Springsteen

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• Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

  Vince Lombardi

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  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty, Optimism, Pessimism
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  When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.

  Helen Keller

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  Tags in Optimism, Pessimism, Regret

• I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.

  Antonio Gramsci

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• Scared and sacred are spelled with the same letters. Awful proceeds from the same root word as awesome. Terrify and terrific. Every negative experience holds the seed of transformation.

  Alan Cohen

  Topics in Fear, Opportunity, Wisdom

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  A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Challenge, Life, Opportunity

  Tags in Optimism, Pessimism, Difficulties

• One has to have the courage of one’s pessimism.

  Ian McEwan

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• There are two Newman’s laws. The first one is “It is useless to put on your brakes when you’re upside down.” The second is “Just when things look darkest, they go black.”

  Paul Leonard Newman

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  Tags in Pessimism, Creed, Credo, Useless

• Younger people have so many opportunities. I don’t see any pessimism among them.

  Freeman Dyson

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  Tags in Pessimism, Younger, Opportunities

• Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

  Bernard DeVoto

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• If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

  Francis Parker Yockey

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  Tags in Optimism, Pessimism, Stupidity

• Pessimism is as American as apple pie – frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese.

  George Will

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• You know, the pessimism which exists now in the Middle East existed in Northern Ireland, but we stayed at it.

  George J. Mitchell, Jr.

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• Blending hard-bitten realism with long-view optimism, Obama said that every 20 or 30 years brings a new cycle of pessimism in America.

  Ron Fournier

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• My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

  Edmond Rostand

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• Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they’re better than other human beings.

  James Baldwin

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  Tags in Pessimism, Themselves, Notice, Being

• For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

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• Science cannot be stopped. Man will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences – and we cannot predict what they will be. Science will go on — whether we are pessimistic, or are optimistic, as I am. I know that great, interesting, and valuable discoveries can be made and will be made… But I know also that still more interesting discoveries will be made that I have not the imagination to describe — and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.

  Linus Pauling

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  Tags in Discovery, Optimism, Pessimism, Curiosity, School, Enthusiasm