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• Television showrunners are a foolishly optimistic bunch.

  Eric Kripke

  Television, Bunch

  "Showrunner Eric Kripke Talks REVOLUTION, Possibly Revealing the Reason for the Blackout This Season, How Long the Search for Danny Lasts, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 15, 2012.

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• I try not to be too optimistic or pessimistic. If you're a pessimist then that's depressing all the time; if you're an optimist and things don't work out then that's depressing, too.

  Nicholas Hoult

  Depressing, Work Out, Trying

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• The Americans are optimistic by their nature. And they are hopeful.

  Chaka Fattah

  Hopeful

  "CNN Crossfire" with James Carville and Robert Novak, www.cnn.com. February 8, 2005.

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• If stocks are optimistic, then so am I.

  Lawrence Kudlow

  Ifs

  "September Optimism". Kudlow's Money Politics blog, kudlowsmoneypolitics.blogspot.ru. September 4, 2007.

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• The objective of our religious foundations is to teach people that they are hurting themselves when they say they believe something. What we should realize is we know almost nothing about God and therefore we should be eager to search and to learn.

  John Templeton

  Religious, Hurt, Believe

  "In the Name of Purpose: Sacrificing Truth on the Altar of Unity". Book by Tamara Hartzell, 2007.

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• A flower is a miracle, but it does not have the sight or speech to describe us. And our own ability is no greater than that flower when we try to describe God. His infinity covers not only one planet, but the entire solar system and 100 billion suns. That doesn't mean he is limited in his ability to be part of you.

  John Templeton

  Flower, Mean, Sight

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• Let's worship Divinity, but understand the divinity we worship is beyond our comprehension.

  John Templeton

  Divinity, Worship, Devotion

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• I believe all religions are becoming obsolete, clinging to ancient concepts.

  John Templeton

  Believe, Becoming, Ancient

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• The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.

  John Templeton

  Thinking, Self, Sea

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• The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God? God is everyone and each of us is a little bit.

  John Templeton

  Littles, Bits, Little Bit

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• Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church.

  John Templeton

  Teaching, Church, Steps

  "Sir John's Divine Gamble" by Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. June 1, 1999.

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• It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.

  John Templeton

  Thinking, Self, Divinity

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• If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.

  John Templeton

  Opportunity, Opportunities To Learn, Welcome

  "John Templeton, billionaire U.S. philanthropist, dies at 95". www.nytimes.com. July 08, 2008.

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• Before this century is over, the Dow Jones Industrial Average will probably be over one million versus around 10,000 now. So for the long-term, the outlook is tremendously bullish if you buy stocks blindly to keep for a century.

  John Templeton

  Average, Long, Investing

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• The other boys at Yale came from wealthy families, and none of them were investing outside the United States, and I thought, 'That is very egotistical. Why be so shortsighted or near-sighted as to focus only on America? Shouldn't you be more open-minded?'

  John Templeton

  Boys, Yale, America

  "Sir John's Divine Gamble" by Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. June 1, 1999.

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• See the investment world as an ocean and buy where you get the most value for your money. Right now the value is in non-callable bonds. Most bonds are callable so when they start going up in price, the debtor calls them away from you. But the non-callable bonds, especially those non-callable for 25-30 years, can go way up in price if interest rates go way down.

  John Templeton

  Ocean, Years, Debtors

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• If you buy all the stocks selling at or below two times earnings, you will lose money on half of them because instead of making profits they will actually lose money, but you will only lose a dollar or so a share at most. Then others will be mediocre performers. But the remaining big winners will go up and produce fabulous results and also ensure a good overall result.

  John Templeton

  Two, Dollars, Half

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• Despite the ills of our society, we largely live among compassionate, kind and optimistic people who are striving to do good. [...] Learn how to be happy and keep this in mind: You can't be happy unless you stop being afraid.

  Homer Hickam

  People, Mind, Our Society

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• In my 45-year career as an investment counselor, humility did show me the need for worldwide diversification to reduce risk. That career did help me to become more and more humble because statistics showed that when I advised a client to buy one stock to replace another, about one-third of the time the client would have done better to ignore my advice. In other endeavors, humility about how little I know has encouraged me to listen more carefully and more wisely.

  John Templeton

  Humble, Humility, Years

  "Sir John Templeton: Mixing Science, Religion, and Humility" by T George Harris, sirjohntempleton.org. September 01, 2001.

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• The very act of writing assumes, to begin with, that someone cares to hear what you have to say. It assumes that people share, that people can be reached, that people can be touched and even in some cases changed. So many of the things in our world lead us to despair. It seems to me that the final symptom of despair is silence, and that storytelling is one of the sustaining arts; it’s one of the affirming arts. A writer may have a certain pessimism in his outlook, but the very act of being a writer seems to me to be an optimistic act.

  Tobias Wolff

  Art, Writing, Our World

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• I'm here tonight, not as a Republican, not as a Democrat, but as an optimistic American who understands that we must come together behind the one man who can lead the way forward in these challenging times: my president, our president, Barack Obama!

  Charlie Crist

  Men, Way Forward, Challenges

  Charlie Crist, Ellis Henican (2014). “The Party's Over: How the Extreme Right Hijacked the GOP and I Became a Democrat”, p.8, Penguin

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• It's actually cool to be positive and optimistic and idealistic. It's cool to see yourself doing beautiful, great things.

  Tom DeLonge

  Beautiful, Being Positive, Great Things

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• [There is no shortage of scientific talent.] But [I am] much less optimistic about the managerial vision [of the pharmaceutical industry] to catalyse these talents to deliver the results we all want.

  James Black

  Science, Vision, Want

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• I'm confident and really optimistic.

  Saku Koivu

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• Welles and I differed, however, in our interpretation of the results of the Munich Conference, he being optimistic, I skeptical. In a radio address on October 3, several days after the conference, in which he described the steps taken by the United States Government just prior to Munich, he said that today, perhaps more than at any time during the past two decades, there was presented the opportunity for the establishment by the nations of the world of a new world order based upon justice and upon law. It seemed to me that the colors in the picture were much darker.

  H. G. Wells

  Money, Taken, Past

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