And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.

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"So keep fightin' for freedom and justice beloveds but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. In 1995 humorist Florence King wrote in a The American Enterprise column that Ivins had plagiarized King's work and mis-stated a quotation from a King column in a 1988 Mother Jones article.