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Quotations regarding 'Optimism'

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That is why, with optimism instead of fear, all those who want to see Puerto Rico's status resolved should seek the truth about each option, including the upside and the downside of each.

Dick Thornburgh, American Politician (1932- )

And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.

Vernor Vinge, American Writer (1944- )

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

Voltaire, French Writer (1694-1778)

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist (1854-1900)

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist (1854-1900)

Comedy is acting out optimism.

Robin Williams, American Comedian (1952- )

These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Virginia Woolf, British Author (1882-1941)

If pessimism is despair, optimism is cowardice and stupidity. Is there any need to choose between them?

Francis Parker Yockey, American Writer (1917-1960)

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