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Quote by Heywood Broun
The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or there

The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality. – Heywood Broun

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Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways –and all are right! At least all will do. – Heywood Broun

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Baby, Babies
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Heywood Broun
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Free speech is about as good as cause as the world has ever known. But, like the poor, it is always with us and gets shoved aside in favour of things which seem at some given moment more vital. – Heywood Broun

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Speech (freedom of)
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Heywood Broun
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If you pray for rain, dont be surprised if youre struck by lightning. – Damien Cannon

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Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist –a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist –only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression. – E. M. Cioran

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Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous. – Elias Canetti

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I dont believe in pessimism. If something doesnt come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think its going to rain, it will. – Clint Eastwood

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