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ContrastExperienceOptimismPessimismUnderstanding A pessimist? That's a person who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
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Elbert Hubbard

AttitudeHopePessimismPotentialYouth There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

Mark Twain

American writer and humorist
OptimismPerspectivePessimism A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
FrustrationMisanthropyPessimism There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

Mark Twain

American writer and humorist
CivilizationCyclesOptimismPessimismProgress The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.

Elon Musk

Technology Entrepreneur and Investor
ChangeDeterminismFree WillOptimismPessimism A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

Aldous Huxley

English writer and philosopher
OpportunityOptimismPerspectivePessimism The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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