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Letter "O" » Optimism
«The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.»
Author: J. Robert Oppenheimer
(Physicist)
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Optimism
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best of all, optimist, pessimist, possible worlds, worlds
«The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case you thought optimism was dead.»
«The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.»
«The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to h»
Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(Pastor, Theologian)
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Optimism
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abandon, enables, no-account, optimism, resigned, vitality
«There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.»
Author: Stephen Hawking
(Physicist)
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Optimism
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cautious, grounds, Laws of nature, optimism
«The most positive men are the most credulous.»
«The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose»
«The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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Optimism,
Pessimism
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eight, forty, Forty eight, optimist, pessimist, too little
«There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist»
«The basis of optimism is sheer terror.»
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