"Our sense of optimism, our can-do spirit, that's a source of great strength in America. But when there are no limits at all and we've gone through whole periods where we think everything has gone right, that's when disaster tends to strike."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

Peter Beinart

#Thinking Quotes #America Quotes #Optimism Quotes

“I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was,”
“A man's worth has its season, like fruit.”
“Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it.”
“I'd see movies, comedies, and I loved 'Animal House', I loved all the John Hughes stuff, but I never saw me and my friends totally represented.”
“Ballroom is two people dancing together to music, touching in perfect harmony.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Do you still look at each other like you once did, back at the beginning of the story when everything was a question you were too afraid to find the answer to?”

Source : Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.228, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Do not brood. It makes the moment you are living in unavailable for learning and life.”
“Pleasure is a thief to business.”

Source : 'The Complete English Tradesman' (1725) vol. 1

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