An optimist, I'm anything but that.

I may be an optimist, but I believe diplomats should be optimists rather than pessimists.

You're an optimist.

Well, I'm not an optimist, neither am I a pessimist.

And that is, I understand that optimists greatly outlive pessimists.

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You're an optimist.

Today, for many African nations, global optimism coexists with local pessimism.

Of course there is nothing wrong with Utopianism.

Perhaps we should say the same thing about optimism.

Optimism is merely a lack of information.

You're a Californian utopian. You're a wild eyed optimist.

I don't know whether that's going to happen or not, but I'm an optimist.

Optimism is sometimes characterized as a belief, an intellectual posture.

Neuroscientists have actually shown that human beings are hard wired to be optimists.

It largely reflected the undiminished techno optimism of its time.

The sense in which I can be uplifting and inspiring I mean, there's always been a kind of a certain grim dimension to the way I try to uplift, so if grim inspiration if grim inspiration is not a contradiction in terms, that is, I'm afraid, the most you can hope for. OK, today that's if I succeed.

And if you put creation and optimism together, you've got two choices that you can talk about.

Recently, Obama has introduced optimism at a sort of time of global financial crisis.

The pendulum swings from optimism to pessimism and then back again.

So anyway, today we'll talk about architecture a little bit, within the subject of creation and optimism.

But I believe that a realistic appraisal of the human condition compels an optimistic worldview. I am particularly optimistic about the potential for technological innovation to improve the lives of the poorest people in the world.

The PRESIDENT I'll interpret that as an optimistic note.

I'm going to try to give you a view of the world as I see it, the problems and the opportunities that we face, and then ask the question if we should be optimistic or pessimistic.

And then I'll let you in on a secret, which is why I am an incurable optimist.

What was at the beginning of this spring no more than a glimmer of hope, to use Obama s phrase, has become a more serious and positive trend. Animated collectively by a combination of natural optimism and deep nationalism, Americans have made their president s campaign slogan, Yes, we can, their own.

Facing a new array of challenges, this session should point the way towards a brighter future and a renewed sense of optimism.

You banished pessimism.

I am by turns an optimist and a pessimist.

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Tell him about CocaCola colonialism.

He said, Be happy.

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Some resolute optimists might see this as evidence of a certain trend towards the triumph of legality over force in international relations.

I'm optimistic.

How dare we be optimistic?

But even if you look across the mood music in Europe of late, far right fascism is also on the rise.

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I think she'd cheer.

I'm afraid I was too optimistic about the whole thing.

Here, the political divide could be defined as optimists versus pessimists. The former, as in Labor, believed that some day a force would emerge among Arabs and Palestinians ready to make peace on a reasonable basis the latter, as in Likud, were more doubtful.

That's a utilitarian moral framework.