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In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store. ↗

— Jack Steinberger

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By nature, I am not an optimist, though I try to act as if I am. ↗

— Howard Gardner

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Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

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I may be an optimist. ↗

— Rebecca De Mornay

#may #optimist

God has never made a mistake. Ever. ↗

— Ray Lewis

#god #made #mistake #never

I've got used to criticisms and, naturally, I try to make sure I don't listen to the more extreme ones because most of the people who have taken their right-wing extremist view of my life are people that I've never met. ↗

— Maurice Strong

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All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others. ↗

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#become #come #dark #door #go

With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven. ↗

— Studs Terkel

#because #despair #head #hope #i

I grew up wanting to be a musician, but my parents were sure I would starve to death. So, they put me in physics and chemistry. That eventually blew up, and I got into radio. ↗

— John Tesh

#chemistry #death #eventually #got #grew