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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 stern

— Quoted in Women Know Everything!: 3,241 Quips, Quotes, and Brilliant Remarks By Karen Weekes, p.41

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Leaders must be optimists. Their vision was beyond the present and set on a future of real peace and true freedom.

rudy giuliani

— Speech before the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York. August 30, 2004. [2]

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Communists are the last optimists.

nadine gordimer

— Conrad in Burger's Daughter (1979), p. 42

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...in general, the traditionalists are backward-looking, conservative ; pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

Lewis Mumford

— Faith for Living, (1940). Often quoted as "Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.", e.g, Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1979) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 112.

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Optimism 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

— p.38 (Les grands cimetieres sous la lune (A Diary of My Times) 1938)

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Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley , have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness.

gilbert keith chesterton

— "Introduction"

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