"I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day."

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"I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day."

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"Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead."

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"I shall omit former particulars, and begin with informing the Reader, that, in 1792, I was strangely visited, by day and night, concerning what was coming upon the whole earth."

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"We want to shut down the day laborer site. This day laborer site undermines and violates federal immigration law, and it can't go forward."

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