A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
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We live in cheap an twisted times.
Our leaders are low-rent Fascists and our laws are a tangle of mockeries. Recent polls indicate that the only people who feel optimistic about the future are first-year law students who expect to get rich by haggling over the ruins... and they are probably right.
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I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.
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I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best for myself and others. I am the creator of my life and my world. I meet daily challenges gracefully and with complete confidence. I fill my mind with positive, nurturing, and healing thoughts.
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The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.
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Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who wants to live in gloom and doom otherwise. Give lifting that person your best shot, but don't hang around long enough for his or her bad attitude to pull you down. Instead, surround yourself with optimistic people.
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Two young Harvard M.B.A.'s worked up some highly optimistic projections -- with the caveat that these were speculative and should of course be tested.
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If Europeans respect our right, we are optimistic about Iranian-European talks.
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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There are no optimistic or pessimistic personalities. There are only single, individual choices for optimistic or pessimistic thoughts.
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Demand for iMac exceeded our most optimistic forecasts.
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We're optimistic about all nine justices, given the nature of the case here.
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If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.
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I'm pretty optimistic. We've got a really, really good car and know the race track fairly well. We know what we need to do to win.
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[Tchaikovsky] was going through tough times then, because he went through a divorce. This symphony is very intense and passionate but with a very optimistic and exciting ending.
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I won last year and I have a great memory. I am optimistic for Sunday (TV, 10:30 p.m. ET Saturday).
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To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic.
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