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

— Eric Sevareid

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I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist. One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand, and if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer - he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity. ↗

— Bernard Malamud

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I am an optimistic lady. ↗

— Julie Andrews

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Life doesn't get much better than this. ↗

— Stanford Wong

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A poet is a blind optimist. The world is against him for many reasons. But the poet persists. He believes that he is on the right track, no matter what any of his fellow men say. In his eternal search for truth, the poet is alone. He tries to be timeless in a society built on time. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

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I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist. ↗

— William Golding

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If your dreams are to hard to achieve, just achieve ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

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My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. I've developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day. ↗

— Martha Beck

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