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Quote by Havelock Ellis
The place where optimism flourishes most is in the lunatic asylum.

The place where optimism flourishes most is in the lunatic asylum. – Havelock Ellis

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Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. – Havelock Ellis

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Dance, Dancing
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Havelock Ellis
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The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human beings functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship. – Havelock Ellis

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Family
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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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The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser — in case you thought optimism was dead. – Robert Brault

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When you have seven percent unemployed, you have ninety-three percent working. – John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue but moderation in principle is always a vice. – Thomas Paine

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Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it. – Germaine Greer

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Theres this common perception that having a famous last name is all you need. A surname may get you a meeting, but if theres no talent you wont get the part. – Lily Collins

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People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something. – Soren Kierkegaard

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