#optimist

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

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Well, I'm an optimist. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. ↗

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

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I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist. ↗

— Michael Pollan

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Things are going to get better. Be optimistic. ↗

— Bob Dole

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I am optimistic. But I also know that, with time, I'm beginning to fight issues of aging as well as long-term paralysis. ↗

— Christopher Reeve

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Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right. ↗

— James Reston

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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic. ↗

— Carl Rogers

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The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it. ↗

— Thomas J. Sargent

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

— Eric Sevareid

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