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An optimist is a proponent of the doctrine that black is white. -

An optimist is a proponent of the doctrine that black is white. – Ambrose Bierce

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Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. – Ambrose Bierce

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I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. – Walt Disney

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Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it. – Douglas Jerrold, “Meeting Troubles Half-Way,” 1859

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If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man. – Albert Camus

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A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist. – Elbert Hubbard, The Note-Book, 1927

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