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• What passes for optimism is most often the effect on an intellectual error.
  -- Raymond Aron, "The Opium of the Intellectuals", 1957...
• What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
  -- Raymond Aron, "The Opium of the Intellectual...
• Optimism, n: The belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, good, bad, and everything right that is wrong.
  It is held with greatest tenacity by those accustomed to falling into adversity, and most acceptably expounded with the grin that apes a smile....
• OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong.
  It is held with greatest tenacity by those most accustomed to the mischance of falling into adversity, and is most acceptably expounded with the grin that apes a smile....
• Ecstasy is a glimpse of the infinite; horror is full disclosure. -- Kirk Schneide
• Goals are dreams with deadlines. -- Diana Scharf Hu
• A second marriage is when optimism exceeds experience.
• Cynicism is safe, optimism takes real intelligence.
• Teaching is the greatest act of optimism. -- Colleen Wilcox