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"He found that the business of optimism was no mean task."
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"The most clear-sided view of the darkest possible situation is itself an act of optimism."
"Act as though everything will be perfectly fine - because it will. Life has you and it's not letting you go."
"Laugh and make the best of every situation. Understand that life is not perfect."
"And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow."
"I see the good in the world because I choose to. I don't imagine that it's there, it's there waiting to be noticed."
"You would have to say his number one accomplishment has been to inspire a sense of confidence in the country. That confidence, that optimism, not only gives President Obama a political cushion, but it could have a real world economic impact."
"It's been said that people see what they want to see. For that exact reason, look for the good in people, rather than the bad."
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"Each night when she prepared for bed she smeared her face with some new unguent which she hoped illogically would give back the glow and freshness to her vanishing beauty."
"Probably more than any concrete vice or failing Amory despised his own personality - he loathed knowing that to-morrow and the thousand days after he would sell pompously at a compliment and sulk at an ill word like a third-rate musician or a first-class actor."
"I found something! Courage--just that, courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always."
"They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered. They both seemed to have arrived there with an extraordinary innocence as though a series of pure accidents had driven them together, so many accidents that at last they were forced to conclude that they were for each other. They had arrived with clean hands, or so it seemed, after no traffic with the merely curious and clandestine."
"By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish."
"She went out socially with him, but without enthusiasm, devoured already by that eternal inertia which comes to live with each of us one day and stays with us to the end."
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."
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