Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute. - Gil Stern
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A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist. - Elbert Hubbard
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Pessimism never won any battle. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. - George F. Will
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I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will. - Clint Eastwood
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No one really knows enough to be a pessimist. - Norman Cousins
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The optimist is the kind of person who believes a housefly is looking for a way out. - George Jean Nathan
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The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. - William Arthur Ward
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A pessimist sees only the dark side of the clouds, and mopes; a philosopher sees both sides, and shrugs; an optimist doesn't see the clouds at all - he's walking on them. - Leonard Louis Levinson
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An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. - Sydney J. Harris
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No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. - Helen Keller
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Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
- Helen Keller
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