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Comedy is acting out optimism. |
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- Robin Williams |
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A teacher is the candle that lights others in
consuming itself. |
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- Giovanni Ruffini |
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Be sure that the candle is lit before you throw
away the match. |
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- Creole Proverb (Southern U.S.) |
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Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier. |
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- Colin Powell |
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Common sense is the wick of the candle. |
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- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Our lives are like a candle in the wind. |
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- Carl Sandburg |
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Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power. |
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- William James |
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We must view young people not as empty bottles
to be filled, but as candles to be lit. |
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- Robert H. Shaffer |
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We say God and the imagination are one . . . How
high that highest candle lights the dark. |
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- Wallace Stevens |
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How far that little candle throws his beams! /
So shines a good deed in a naughty world. |
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- William Shakespeare |
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If you have knowledge, let others light their
candles in it. |
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- Margaret Fuller |
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I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use
being anything else. |
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- Winston Churchill |
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Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism
taken out. |
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- Robert Hewison |
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I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a
raincoat. |
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- Harold Wilson |
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The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to
optimism. |
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- Brian May |
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It is better to light one small candle than to
curse the darkness. |
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- Confucius |
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My candle burns at both ends; It will not last
the night; But ah, my foes, and oh my friends -
It gives a lovely light! |
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- Edna St. Vincent Millay |
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The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't
still be a farmer. |
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- Will Rogers |
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Our lives are like a candle in the wind. |
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- Carl Sandburg |
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I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use
being anything else. |
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- Winston Churchill |
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Religion is a candle inside a multicolored
lantern. Everyone looks through a particular
color, but the candle is always there. |
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- Mohammed Naguib |
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An optimist is a fellow who believes what's
going to be will be postponed. |
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- Kin Hubbard |
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There are two ways of spreading light: To be the
candle or the mirror that reflects it. |
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- Edith Wharton |
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It is not economical to go to bed early to save
the candles if the result is twins. |
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- Chinese Proverb |
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We must view young people not as empty bottles
to be filled, but as candles to be lit. |
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- Robert H. Shaffer |
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We say God and the imagination are one . . . How
high that highest candle lights the dark. |
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- Wallace Stevens |
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but
when I look at people I am optimistic. |
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- Carl Rogers |
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An optimist is a person who sees a green light
everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red
stoplight... the truly wise person is
colorblind. |
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- Albert Schweitzer |
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The optimist thinks this is the best of all
possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true. |
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- J. Robert Oppenheimer |
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An optimist may see a light where there is none,
but why must the pessimist always run to blow it
out? |
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- Rene Descartes |
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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before
lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's
freedom after it. |
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- Aldous Huxley |
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