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• Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you and know, absolutely know, that the sound in the dark is a monster, and it really is as bad as you think. Did that sound hopeless? It didn't feel hopeless. It felt reassuring. It felt - real.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Real, Dark, Thinking

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2008). “Blood Noir: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.324, Penguin

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• In choosing a partner, always pick the optimist.

  Tony Lema

  Partners, Picks

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• And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.

  Molly Ivins

  Funny Things, Disorder

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• Pessimist: One who has been intimately acquainted with an Optimist.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Funny, Literature, Pessimist

  "The Roycroft Dictionary, Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days".

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• I'm naturally an optimist, but my basis for hope is rooted in my understanding of human nature.

  Al Gore

  Understanding, Human Nature, Bases

  "Al Gore, ‘Inconvenient Truth’ Author And Global-Warming Expert, Talks About Change". Interview with Leigh Haber, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 29, 2013.

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• What is an optimist? The man who says, "It's worse everywhere else. We're better off than the rest of the world. We've been lucky." He is happy with things as they are and he doesn't torment himself. What is a pessimist? The man who says, "Things are fine everywhere but here. Everyone else is better off than we are. We're the only ones who've had a bad break." He torments himself continually.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Men, Lucky, World

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• The optimist in me wants to believe sexuality will eventually become like handwriting: there’s no right way and wrong way to do it. We’re all just wired differently. It's also worth noting that when you meet someone, you never bother to ask if he’s right or left-handed. After all: does it really matter to anyone other than the person holding the pen?

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, Way, Doe

  Jodi Picoult (2014). “Sing You Home: A Novel”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.

  James Buchan

  Eye, Past, Play

  "Greed and amnesia: the devils in financial history" by James Buchan, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2008.

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• The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

  Tom Bodett

  Inspirational, Funny, Differences

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• Elend shook his head. "We can survive this. But, the only way that will happen is if our people don't give up. They need leaders who laugh, leaders who feel that this fight can be won. So, this is what I ask of you. I don't care if you're an optimist or a pessimist—I don't care if secretly, you think we'll all be dead before the month ends. On the outside, I want to see you smiling. Do it in defiance, if you have to. If the end does come, I want this group to meet that end smiling. As the Survivor taught us.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Fighting

  Brandon Sanderson (2008). “The Hero of Ages: Book Three of Mistborn”, p.117, Macmillan

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• Optimists are happier in life for a reason.

  Brendon Burchard

  Reason

  Brendon Burchard (2012). “The Charge: Activating the 10 Human Drives That Make You Feel”, p.150, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm an optimist by nature, myself, I think.

  Emily Mortimer

  Thinking

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• A lot of people over time have had this kind of pattern in their relationship with Bill Clinton. You first meet him and you're overwhelmed by his talent. He's so energetic and articulate and full of ideas and he calls himself a congenital optimist and that optimism is contagious.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Ideas, Optimism, People

  Interview with Barak Goodman and Chris Durrance, www.pbs.org. February 20, 2012.

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• The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.

  Albert Schweitzer

  God, Faith, Hope

  Albert Schweitzer (1953). “Out of My Life and Thought: An Autobiography: Postscript 1932-1949 by Everett Skillings”

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• . . . if there is a way for the world to be transformed for the better, it can only be done by pessimism; optimists will never change the world for the better.

  Jose Saramago

  Done, World, Way

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• The optimist sees the future as a rabbit sees the oncoming truck - getting bigger, not closer.

  Steve Aylett

  Rabbits, Truck, Bigger

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• A man who has spent most of his adult life trying out a series of patent medicines is always an optimist.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Men, Medicine, Trying

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• The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the reality that all progress is going to be obstructed by vested interests and corrupted by human venality can we create realistic programmes that actually have a chance of success.

  Julian Baggini

  Real, Believe, Progress

  "In praise of cynicism" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2013.

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• Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

  Idries Shah

  Information, Sometimes, Pessimist

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.134, Octagon Press Ltd

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• I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

  Steve Jobs

  Smart, Believe, Optimistic

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.46, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Where you think I’m goan?’ ‘Well,’ Eddie said, ‘what was behind Door Number One wasn’t so hot, and what was behind Door Number Two was even worse, so now, instead of quitting like sane people, we’re going to go right on ahead and check out Door Number Three. The way things have been going, I think it’s likely to be something like Godzilla or Ghidra the Three-Headed Monster, but I’m an optimist. I’m still hoping for the stainless steel cookware.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Numbers, Doors

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days - you just have to be a little more cockeyed.

  Robert Breault

  Optimism, Littles, These Days

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• Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship.

  Garry Shandling

  Relationship, Commitment, Love Is

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• Well, you know, I'm the forever optimist.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Motivational Sports, Bodybuilding

  "Cable Exclusive: Arnold Schwarzenegger opens up on personal and professional failures". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. October 1, 2012.

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• I am a cynical optimist. Big opening weekends are like cotton candy. The films you will remember over time are the films that stick in the consciousness of the audience in a good way.

  Robert Redford

  Weekend, Cynical, Cotton Candy

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