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is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant the digitalis of failure. Elbert Hubbard

is a political act, in contrast to cynicism, which, insofar as it settles for the status quo, amounts to obedience.

Optimism is a political act. Those who benefit from the status quo are perfectly happy for us to think nothing is going to get any better. In fact, these days, cynicism is obedience. Alex Steffen

is an alienated form of faith, just as pessimism an alienated form of despair.

Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair. Erich Fromm

is an intellectual disorder held with the greatest tenacity by those most accustomed to the mischance of falling into adversity.

optimism, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. It is held with greatest tenacity by those most accustomed to the mischance of falling into adversity, and is most acceptably expounded with disproof - an intellectual disorder, yielding to no treatment but death. It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.

Optimist are nostalgic about the future. - Chicago Tribune

is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking and not always better than pessimism, which is detail-oriented thinking.

There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking... pessimism is detail-oriented thinking. David Rakoff

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled. Mark Twain

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