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• The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives.

  Cherrie Moraga

  Believe, People, Political

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• I am an eternal optimist. Being happy is a choice. And you can make that choice every day, if you want to.

  Brittany Murphy

  Happiness, Choices, Want

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• I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.

  Clay Aiken

  Thinking, Afterlife, Littles

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• Pessimists calculate the odds. Optimists believe they can overcome them.

  Ted Koppel

  Believe, Odds, Overcoming

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• In the face of so much pain, I remain an incurable optimist. I am fueled by the passion of the women I have been privileged to meet and work with, buoyed by their hope for peace, justice, and democracy.

  Bella Abzug

  Pain, Passion, Justice

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• You see, Buddhists are optimists. We never saw sunsets in Atlantis like we do now. We didn't have those great chemicals in the air.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Sunset, Air

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• People call me an optimist, but I'm really an appreciator ... years ago, I was cured of a badly infected finger with antibiotics when once my doctor could have recommended only a hot water soak or, eventually, surgery.... When I was six years old and had scarlet fever, the first of the miracle drugs, sulfanilamide, saved my life. I'm grateful for computers and photocopiers ... I appreciate where we've come from.

  Julian Simon

  Grateful, Doctors, Years

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• A pessimist says all women are loose. An optimist does not, but he has hopes.

  Julian Tuwim

  Doe, Pessimist, Having Hope

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• Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Realizing, Goodness

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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• I'm a technological optimist in that I do believe that technology will provide solutions that will allow the world in 2050 to support 9 billion people at an acceptable standard of living. But I'm a political pessimist in that I am concerned about whether the science will be appropriately applied.

  Martin Rees

  Believe, Technology, People

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• To stand together against homophobic, sexist, misogynistic, anti-Semitic and racist agendas. I’m an optimist and I can’t help but feel hopeful about the future of film - especially looking at all the beautiful people in this room. Martin Luther King Jr. said, ‘Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.’ I would like to encourage everyone in this room to please speak up.

  Jessica Chastain

  Beautiful, Kings, People

  "Watch Jessica Chastain’s Impassioned Speech For Diversity In Hollywood" by Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2015.

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• Optimism is not inherently a superior way of viewing the world. Certainly doctors will say it might be better for one's physical health to be an optimist. But, morally speaking it may not be appropriate in certain circumstances.

  Todd Solondz

  Doctors, Optimism, World

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• Communists are the last optimists.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Lasts, Communist

  Nadine Gordimer (2012). “Burger's Daughter”, p.37, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• But I'm only a cockeyed optimist.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Optimism

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• But black folks have never really been optimists. We've been prisoners of hope, and hope is qualitatively different from optimism in the way that there's a difference between The Blues and Lawrence Welk. The Blues and Jazz have to do with hope while the other is sugarcoated music which has to do with sentimental optimism.

  Cornel West

  Differences, Optimism, Black

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• I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference... I am an optimist who worries a lot.

  Madeleine Albright

  War, Reading, Thinking

  Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2010.

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• I've always been very hopeful which I guess isn't strange coming from me. I don't want to call myself an optimist. I want to say that I've always been full of hope. I've never lost that. I have a lot of hope for this country and for the entire world. . .

  Steven Spielberg

  Country, Hopeful, World

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• I am not a pessimist.
  Just a well informed optimist.

  Antonio Gala

  Pessimist, Wells

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• I'm enough of an optimist and a patriot to believe that in U.S. you have a lot of opportunity and can do pretty much anything you want in some form. For me, the idea of failure is far preferable to the idea of regret.

  Michael Ian Black

  Regret, Believe, Opportunity

  "The Best-Laid Plans of Michael Ian Black". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 27, 2012.

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• The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators.

  Francois Guizot

  Investing, World, Pessimist

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• Ibsen is at heart an optimist. He could not close his life's work with a note of negation. When We Dead Awaken is a clear, ringing call to the future.

  Jeanette Lee

  Heart, Notes, Ibsen

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• Because one has to be an optimist to begin an ambitious project, it is not surprising that underestimation of completion time is the norm.

  Fernando J. Corbato

  Ambitious, Projects, Norm

  "On Building Systems That Will Fail". Communications of the ACM, Volume 34 Issue 9, dl.acm.org. September 1991.

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• we find that the optimists have an undeniable advantage over the pessimists. Many studies show that they do better on exams, in their chosen profession, and in their relationships, live longer and in better health, enjoy a better chance of surviving postoperative shock, and are less prone to depression and suicide.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Suicide, Chance, Study

  Matthieu Ricard (2011). “The Art of Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill”, p.169, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Believe, Thinking, Humanity

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• I've been depressed many times in my life. But under it all I'm an optimist.

  Janet Fitch

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