“ Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole! ”
- Mclandburgh Wilson- Copy
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“ The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds; the pessimist knows it. ”
- J. Robert Oppenheimer- Copy
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“ For myself I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use being anything else. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
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“ An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be. ”
- Chauncey Depew- Copy
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“ In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you wake in the morning. ”
- Carl Sandburg- Copy
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“ There is only one optimist. He has been here since man has been on this earth, and that is "man" himself. If we hadn't had such a magnificent optimism to carry us through all these things, we wouldn't be here. We have survived it on our optimism. ”
- Edward Steichen- Copy
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“ The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. That is part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure continously without resentment. ”
- Elbert Hubbard- Copy
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“ If we are wrong, the Constitution of the United States is wrong. And if we are wrong, God Almighty is wrong. If we are wrong, Jesus of Nazareth was merely a utopian dreamer that never came down to Earth. If we are wrong, justice is a lie, love has no meaning… ”
- Martin Luther King Jr.- Copy
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“ You know, Willie Wonka said it best: We are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams. We should be dreaming. We grew up as kids having dreams, but now we're too sophisticated as adults, as a nation. We stopped dreaming. We should always have dreams… ”
- Herb Brooks- Copy
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“ An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way. ”
- Carl Sandburg- Copy
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“ Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt… Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. ”
- Robert Anton Wilson- Copy
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“ The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, Idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. ”
- Logan Pearsall Smith- Copy
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“ Cynics regard everybody as equally corrupt… Idealists regard everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. ”
- Robert Anton Wilson- Copy
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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.'. ”
- Sidney J. Harris- Copy
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“ An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.'. ”
- Henry Ford- Copy
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“ Children see things very well sometimes and idealists even better. ”
- Lorraine Hansberry- Copy
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“ I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way. ”
- Carl Sandburg- Copy
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“ Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. ”
- Emma Goldman- Copy
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“ Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal. ”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes- Copy
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“ Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world. ”
- Woodrow T. Wilson- Copy
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“ The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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