"As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note."

Positive, Realism, Sense, Writers

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"As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note."

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"The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything."

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German Philosopher

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"From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're positive. They're good. He thinks he's got a good vision for America."

Barbara Olson, American Journalist

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"If we live in the moment every misery shall fade."

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"If we do right, we shall rejoice."

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"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

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"We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects."

Alexis de Tocqueville, French Scientist

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"To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"The large ensemble cast and the fact that it was being shot in New York, combined with a lot of strong positive images as far as African Americans are concerned, really turned me on to The Best Man."

Taye Diggs, American Actor

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"Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive."

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

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"When the audience leaves, I'd like them to feel positive when they go."

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"The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine."

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