Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.
gladys bronwyn sternLeaders must be optimists. Their vision was beyond the present and set on a future of real peace and true freedom.
rudy giulianiCommunists are the last optimists.
nadine gordimer...in general, the traditionalists are backward-looking, conservative ; pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
Lewis MumfordOptimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are optimists in order to avoid pitying other men and their misfortune. ~~ Yet pity is a vexed question.
Georges Bernanos