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Letter "O" » optimists
«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
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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.»
«Cynics are well-informed optimists»
«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»
«It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side»
«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.»
«Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future, challenge the improbable and attain the impossible.»
Author: William Arthur Ward
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enhance, enhancing, enrich, enriching, improbable, optimists
«Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists»
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