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Optimism Definition
(n.) The opinion or doctrine that everything in nature, being the work of God, is ordered for the best, or that the ordering of things in the universe is such as to produce the highest good.
(n.) A disposition to take the most hopeful view; -- opposed to pessimism.
The instinct of self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at the bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them nonexistent, and a warning such as mi...
Stefan Zweig
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awaiting, aware, awareness, banish, cheap optimism, cowardice, danger, dangers, food, human beings
Fantasy, an unflagging optimism is necessary for a writer at all stages of this rough game. A kind of madness is therefore necessary, when there is every logical reason for a state of depression and d...
Patricia Highsmith
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comfortable, depression, discouragement, fantasy, game, gloom, happy, madness, necessary, neuroses