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• I think it's dangerous to be optimistic. Things could go terribly wrong virtually overnight

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Thinking, Literature, Dangerous

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  If this is just the beginning, my life's gonna be beautiful.

  Dean Martin

  Beautiful, Ifs

  Song: Ain't That A Kick In The Head

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• It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience.

  Mark Twain

  Lovely, Disposition, Brushes

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.62, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground.

  Mark Twain

  Play, Backyards, Hell

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.340, Courier Corporation

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• I think in life, you have a choice. You can either be optimistic or pessimistic, and I go for the optimism.

  Jon Anderson

  Thinking, Optimism, Choices

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• I couldnt be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because Im pretty optimistic.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Thinking, Without Hope

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• Since I live part of the year in Italy, I live in a society in which I'm the optimistic American relative to the people who I'm around there. And that has actually brought to my attention the fact that I do have some sort of optimism and has made me think about it enough that I can attempt an answer.

  Jonathon Keats

  Thinking, Years, Optimism

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I do think that I am generally optimistic.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• I'm known for being an up, high-energy, and optimistic kind of guy.

  Al Yankovic

  Guy, Energy, Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• More than 70 percent of Colombians want peace. The rest are afraid of the price to be paid. But even they will realize that their worst fears will not come true. I'm quite optimistic that Colombians do back an agreement with the FARC.

  Juan Manuel Santos

  Agreement, Want, Realizing

  "'Waging War Is More Popular than Negotiating'". Interview with Juliane von Mittelstaedt, Helene Zuber, www.spiegel.de. May 21, 2014.

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• We are not, of course, optimistic about our chances of success. Some form of ecocatastrophe, if not thermonuclear war, seems almost certain to overtake us before the end of the century. (The inability to forecast exactly which one - whether plague, famine, the poisoning of the oceans, drastic climatic change, or some disaster entirely unforeseen - is hardly grounds for complacency.)

  John Holdren

  War, Ocean, Inability

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• We're still as confident, as optimistic as we ever were. You know we hit a little stumbling block here, but I think it's going to be good for us because we can learn from it.

  Joey Harrington

  Block, Thinking, Littles

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• I've always been optimistic. When things come together and I feel comfortable, I know I can be a productive player with an impact.

  Khalil Greene

  Player, Impact, Together

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• The boom produces impoverishment. But still more disastrous are its moral ravages. It makes people despondent and dispirited. The more optimistic they were under the illusory prosperity of the boom, the greater is their despair and their feeling of frustration.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Frustration, People, Feelings

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• Let's not be optimistic in the irreversibly irresponsible way that tends to happen with the crazies of geo-engineering. But let's talk about what sorts of changes we can make.

  Jonathon Keats

  Engineering, Way, Irresponsible

  Source: therumpus.net

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• We're America, and we have to stop worrying about what happens overseas, and to be optimistic, even though nobody should think we're not going to have some difficult times.

  Michael Bloomberg

  Thinking, America, Worry

  Interview with Fareed Zakaria, globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com. November 2, 2008.

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• We're all born pessimists. It takes effort to be optimistic.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Effort, Pessimist, Born

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• Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there's something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow.

  Saad Hariri

  Father, Thinking, Sound

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• What is it like being single? I like it! I like starting each day with a sense of possibility. And I'm optimistic, because everyday I get a little more desperate. And desperate situations yield the quickest results.

  Michael Scott

  Being Single, Yield, Desperate Situations

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• This is a collection of dexterous, loving, beautifully optimistic work that left me breathless and delighted.... Hannu Rajaniemi's magnificent science fiction - as is paradoxically appropriate - is pure magic.

  Amal El-Mohtar

  Magic, Fiction, Breathless

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• Except when you're marching to war, it's not a very optimistic thought, is it? In other words, it's the opposite of optimistic when you're thinking you're going to war.

  George W. Bush

  War, Thinking, Opposites

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• The BJP is an optimistic party. Our strength and our democratic values are such that even a poor person from a backward section - like me - has been nominated as a Prime Ministerial candidate.

  Narendra Modi

  Party, Bjp, Empowerment

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• For me, the future lives only here in my mind, as thoughts and images, just as the past does, and I love those thoughts and the world that it produces. I am entirely optimistic about the future.

  Byron Katie

  Past, Mind, Doe

  "Spiritual Leader Byron Katie Tells ORIGIN Magazine Why We Should Embrace The Quiet". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 30, 2014.

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• I am optimistic that humanity is going to make it, that humanity is going to reach, finally, a new state of consciousness which will then create a different kind of world.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Humanity, Different, World

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• I am basically optimistic.

  Dalai Lama

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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