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«Economists are pessimists: they've predicted 8 of the last 3 depressions»
Author: Barry Asmus
| About:
Economics
| Keywords:
depressions, economists, Pessimists, predicted, predicting, Predicts
«A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is one who hopes they are.»
Author: Chauncey Depew
(Industrialist, Politician)
| About:
Funny,
Men and Women,
Optimism
| Keywords:
all women, hopes, optimist, pessimist, Pessimists, thinks
«A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.»
Author: Don Marquis
(Columnist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
had, listen, many, optimists, pessimist, Pessimists
«My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists»
Author: Edmond Rostand
| About:
Pessimism
| Keywords:
pessimism, Pessimists, sincerity, suspecting, to the point
«Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.»
Author: G. B. Stern
| About:
Optimism,
Pessimism,
Society
| Keywords:
Airplanes, contribute, invents, optimist, optimists, parachute, parachutes, parachuting, pessimist, Pessimists
«Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.»
«Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with from people , stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is the story of what happened on the banks. Historians are pessimists because they ignore the banks for the river.»
Author: Will Durant
(Historian, Writer)
| Keywords:
Banks, Historians, homes, make love, Pessimists, river bank, shouting, stealing, The Story, whittle, whittled, whittles, written record
«A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Optimism,
Positive thinking
| Keywords:
difficulty, every, opportunity, optimist, pessimist, Pessimists, sees
«A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
| Keywords:
acquaint, acquainted, acquainted with, acquainting, acquaints, been, has-been, intimately, optimist, pessimist, Pessimists
«I came to the conclusion that the optimist thought everything good except the pessimist, and that the pessimist thought everything bad, except himself.»
Author: G. K. Chesterton
(Critic, Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
bad, came, conclusion, except, excepted, in conclusion, optimist, pessimist, Pessimists, The Conclusion, thought
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