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Wednesday, 3 December 2008
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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests" (Vidal, Gore - Language)

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Browse Quotations about Optimism

... she knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.
A man who calls bullshit fertilizer.
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.
Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake.
An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.
An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.
An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.
An optimist is a proponent of the doctrine that black is white.
As both capitalist and communist states -- not to mention the technological world --have evolved under the illusion that men purposefully built them, ideological optimism seeps into every niche of our lives. It is made worse by mass culture which feeds our
Be an optimist -- at least until they start moving animals in pairs to Cape Canaveral.
Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something special in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best. Be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.
Don't be too optimistic. The light at the end of the tunnel may be another train.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
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.
I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.
I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.
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.
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you wake in the morning.
Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.
My sun sets to rise again.
Nothing bad is going to happen to us. If we get fired, it's not failure; its a midlife vocational reassessment.
Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
Optimism is the content of small men in high places.
Optimism is the opium of the people.
Optimism. The doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.
Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.
Success comes in cans, failure in can'ts.
The happy ending is our national belief.
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist knows it.
The place where optimism flourishes most is in the lunatic asylum.
The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come.
The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.
These are not dark days: these are great days -- the greatest days our country has ever lived.
To be great one must be positive and gain strength from your opponents.
Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.
Vote with your life; vote yes!
When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower.
When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working.

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