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• Don't ever become a pessimist, Ira; a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun -- and neither can stop the march of events.
  -- Robert Heinlein, Time Enough For Love...
• An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?
  -- Michel De Saint-Pierre...
• Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.
• A pessimist is a man who has been compelled to live with an optimist. -- Elbert Hubbard
• A pessimist is one who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist. -- Elbert Hubbard
• Mankind has been on a bad trip for a long time now.
• Long's Notes 1) Always store beer in a dark place.
  2) Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proved innocent....
• Pessimist: An optimist with experience...
• An optimist invented an airplane; a pessimist a parachute