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"The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum."
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"I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death."

"I'm sort of a pessimist about tomorrow and an optimist about the day after tomorrow."

"Everything is going to be all right. Miracles happen everyday."

"He found that the business of optimism was no mean task."
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"Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy."

"The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves."

"It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge."

"In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the things that are met along the way."

"The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable."

"In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists."
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