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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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• I'm actually genuinely optimistic about the United States and what's possible in the United States. And when you're out here, you see Americans across racial and economic and socioeconomic lines working together. And you maybe get a little bit less cynical than when you sit in the seat of kind of the epicenter of it all.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Cynical, Working Together, Kind

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• I make a strong case for poor sexual communication as the root cause of some assaults. I say some assaults because we know, as well, that there are dyed-in-wool, compulsive predators like Harvey Weinstein on campuses too. But there are guys we can reach here. Once again, I'd like to be optimistic in the way that we look at this problem.

  Vanessa Grigoriadis

  Strong, Communication, Guy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm optimistic about Turkey's prospects for reaching the E.U.'s standards of development, governance, and democracy, whether inside or outside the E.U. Provided you have a prosperous, rational society in Turkey that can interact with Europe and the West, I don't really care what kind of institutional arrangement you have. The point to make about Turkey and Europe is that it's a very long, drawn-out process. What's important is that the process not be stopped, that Turkey and Europe evolve in the right direction, on a path of convergence. Convergence is the name of the game.

  Andrew Mango

  Long, Democracy, Important

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• The New Age movement looks like a mixed bag. I see much in it that seems good: It's optimistic; it's enthusiastic; it has the capacity for belief. On the debit side, I think one needs to distinguish between belief and credulity. How deep does New Age go? Has it come to terms with radical evil? More, I am not sure how much social conscience there is in New Age thinking.

  Huston Smith

  Thinking, Evil, Age

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• I think I'm an optimistic person. Ultimately I believe in people. I believe they can be robust. When my collection Delicate Edible Birds came out there were one or two people who read the title as being a commentary on the characters within the pages, the women in the book, meaning that they were these fragile girls meant for male consumption. But I had meant the opposite - these people are tough. Dark things happen to them but they get on with life as best they can.

  Lauren Groff

  Girl, Believe, Book

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• A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.

  Storm Jameson

  Lying, Noble, Phrases

  Storm Jameson (1966). “The Early Life of Stephen Hind”

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• It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of outrage and injustice at disappointment, all these spring on a man inflicting indelicate agony when he is no longer prepared.

  Margery Allingham

  Disappointment, Spring, Agony

  Margery Allingham (1943). “The Galantrys”

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• I am a joyful conservative, unafraid to articulate big ideas with an optimistic smile.

  Kevin Cramer

  Ideas, Conservative, Joyful

  "New House members of 113th Congress: A-B-C". POLITICO Interview, www.politico.com. January 17, 2013.

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• Unfortunately, the optimistic view that "classical civilization" handed down certain fundamental works that managed to include the knowledge contained in the lost writings has proved groundless. In fact, in the face of a general regression in the level of civilization, it's never the best works that will be saved through an automatic process of natural selection.

  Lucio Russo

  Writing, Views, Civilization

  Lucio Russo, Silvio (translator) Levy (2013). “The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why it Had to Be Reborn”, p.8, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Im a relentlessly optimistic person, and I think The Waterhole is a story of hope and that even though nature goes through cycles, we prevail in the end.

  Graeme Base

  Thinking, Stories, Ends

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• Determination, with an optimistic attitude is the key to success.

  Dalai Lama

  Determination, Attitude, Keys

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• I have this insane optimistic streak that the American people prevail over the stupidity that the leadership exhibits time and time again, and I think that's the truth.

  Lewis Black

  Thinking, People, Stupidity

  Interview with Tom Lewis, www.scpr.org. September 7, 2012.

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• Have you ever studied a snake's face? - how optimistic they look. They have an eternal smile.

  Tasha Tudor

  Snakes, Looks, Faces

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• I don't feel very optimistic in London.

  David Bailey

  London, Feels

  "David Bailey's India: the long click goodbye" by Amelia Gentleman, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2012.

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• Basically I wake up in the morning and I think everything's going to be great. I'm really kind of optimistic, and I look forward to a new day. I pick up 'The New York Times,' and I look at the front page and realize that once again I'm wrong. I start to fixate on stuff.

  Lewis Black

  Morning, New York, Thinking

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• I'm a really, really optimistic and really, really positive person. My main thing is, 'Enjoy life. Celebrate life.'

  Luke Bryan

  Enjoy Life, Celebrate Life, Persons

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• I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

  Rita Dove

  Art, Perspective, Resurgence

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• I'm from Minnesota. I'm optimistic. I mean, that's just who I am.

  Thomas Friedman

  Mean, Who I Am, Minnesota

  "Thomas Friedman: Hope for a hot, flat and crowded world". Interview with Elizabeth Kolbert, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2008.

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• I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Mean, Pioneers, Offensive

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• Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?

  Maxim Gorky

  Men, Justice, Want

  "The Lower Depths". Play by Maxim Gorky, 1902.

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• I'm really excited that the fashion industry is evolving, doing a much better job at representation, with women of color, women of different shapes, sizes, and creeds. It's been a long time coming... There were issues of tokenism, issues of misrepresentation. I'm optimistic that I see the change, the conversation that these archetypes gotta go. We can be very political and have long weaves down to our asses.

  Solange Knowles

  Fashion, Long, Political

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• Where solar energy is concerned - and wind energy and battery storage and electric vehicles and efficiency technologies - that is what we are now seeing. So, yes, I'm very optimistic, but anyone who works on the climate crisis has an internal struggle between hope and despair. I won't deny that, but hope has always prevailed in my outlook.

  Al Gore

  Struggle, Technology, Despair

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• At the beginning of the Syrian conflict, I was optimistic. But now, I'm pessimistic, because it's so complicated. It's much worse than before. The whole world is fighting inside of Syria. It will take years and years to resolve.

  Osama Alomar

  Fighting, Pessimistic, World

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The thing that makes me most optimistic is China and India - both of them doing well. It's amazing how much progress there's been in China, and also India. Those are the places that really matter - they're half of the world's population. They're the places where things are enormously better now than they were 50 years ago. And I don't see anything that's going to stop that.

  Freeman Dyson

  Progress

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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