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Optimism doesnt wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism

Optimism doesnt wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time. – Norman Cousins

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We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of life on earth. – Norman Cousins

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The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives – the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself. – Norman Cousins

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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. – Edmund Burke

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Those who do not complain are never pitied. – Jane Austen

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One chops the wood, the other does the grunting. – Yiddish Proverb

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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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