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"The place where optimism most flourishes 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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"The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human being's functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship."

"If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth."

"It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it."

"There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself."

"The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men."
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