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• I am an optimist about the UK. We have been involved in trade with our European partners, which we will always be doing whatever this relationship is. We are a member of the EU. That gives us benefits. But we have to figure out where that is going. In the world, we are a global trader already.

  Iain Duncan Smith

  Giving, Benefits, World

  "Cabinet minister considered resigning over EU budget revolt, says Tory MP" by Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. November 04, 2012.

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• I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you.

  Simon Sinek

  Way

  "Look On The Bright Side: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• I think of myself as a doom person. I'm a worrier. But I like the idea of being an optimist. Maybe I'm the kind of optimist who deep down knows it's not going to work.

  Owen Wilson

  Thinking, Ideas, Kind

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I consider myself a natural optimist. I like the dark side of things.

  Fritz Scholder

  Dark, Sides, Natural

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• A pessimist is an optimist in full possession of the facts.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Facts, Pessimist, Possession

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• We grow up as natural optimists as Americans. Catholic priests were so hopeful as we watched the Vatican II experience. Yet, it's a punch in the belly to see what has happened in the church and the world. Dualistic thinking seems to have taken over the church and our politics to a really neurotic degree.

  Richard Rohr

  Growing Up, Taken, Thinking

  Source: day1.org

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• Nothing that's ever happened has taken away the optimist in me. It's always, "Whatever-let's go to Disneyland." Yes, I have my bleak, tortured-artist moments, but you have to hold on to what's positive.

  Mariah Carey

  Attitude, Taken, Artist

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• O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Optimism, Troops, Trends

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• The merchant must be no more pessimist than optimist, since pessimism induces him to hold back his capital but optimism induces him to take such risks that he has more to tear than to hope. Abu al'Fadl Ja'far al-Dimishqi (c. 9th century) Arab writer. The Beauties of Commerce Business pays ... philanthropy begs.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Business, Optimism, Risk

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• I weirdly do consider myself an optimist about love.

  Aziz Ansari

  "Aziz Ansari gets candid about love: "elusive and sadly ephemeral"". Interview with TashaR, www.avclub.com. February 13, 2013.

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• The optimist, as you probably know, is a person who, when he wears out his shoes, just figures he's back on his feet.

  Hartman Rector, Jr.

  Attitude, Shoes, Feet

  Hartman Rector, Jr. (2011). “Already to Harvest”, p.23, Cedar Fort

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• The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light - and the next tunnel.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Tunnels, Light, Next

  Sydney J. Harris (1982). “Pieces of Eight”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The most radical political act there is is to be an optimist. The most radical political act there is is to believe that, if I change, other people will follow suit.

  Colin Beavan

  Believe, People, Political

  "No Impact Man: The Documentary". www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• I will be the first to admit that I am a pessimist by nature. It is, after all, the wisest way to be. We pessimists have everything to gain, whereas optimists have a fifty-fifty chance of being disappointed.

  Tamar Myers

  Optimistic, Fifty, Way

  Tamar Myers (2008). “As the World Churns”, p.82, NYLA

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• In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.

  Edward Abbey

  Military, Believe, Civilization

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• I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change

  Ron Silver

  Thinking, Obligation, Ifs

  "AT LUNCH WITH Ron Silver; Lights, Camera, Action! Ideas, Activism, Democracy!" by Todd S. Purdum, www.nytimes.com. December 29, 1993.

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• I am an optimist. I think, as bad as life sometimes gets, there is so much joy and so much good stuff, that there is a balance.

  Amanda Holden

  Thinking, Joy, Balance

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• I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect.

  Sandra Bullock

  Used, Turns, Knows

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I remain an eternal optimist about love. I believe in love.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Believe, Eternal, I Believe

  "Jennifer Lopez Breaks Silence on Split From Marc Anthony" by Lindsay Powers, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 2, 2011.

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• The positive outlook that optimists project does not come from ignoring or denying problems. Optimists simply assume that problems are temporary and can be solved, so optimists naturally want more information about problems because then they can get to work and do something. Pessimists are more likely to believe that there is nothing they can do anyway, so what's the point of even thinking about it?

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Believe, Thinking, Optimism

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• Pessimists see problems as stemming from stable and universal causes, thus making them less susceptible to corrective action. Optimists, in contrast, view problems as temporary and resulting from specific factors that will either change or be changed.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Views, Optimism, Causes

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• I've always been an optimist.

  George Clooney

  "TOMORROWLAND: George Clooney, Damon Lindelof, and Brad Bird on the Boldness of Originality and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 19, 2015.

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• I'm a recovering optimist.

  Larry Gelbart

  Recovering

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• A pessimist is just an optimist with experience.

  Eyedea

  Pessimist

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• I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow.

  Eric Sevareid

  Tomorrow, Pessimist

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