"Perhaps I'm just optimistic."

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Hal Hartley

#Optimistic Quotes

“Intolerance of mediocrity has been the main prop of my independence.”

Source : Elsa Maxwell (1955). “I married the world”
“When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however. But Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.”
“After careful deliberation, I voted today to reauthorize the Patriot Act.”
“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”

Source : "The Gulag Archipelago". Book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1973.
“Low carbon, resource efficient solutions and halting then reversing population growth are two sides of the same coin”
“One of my responsibilities is to make sure that justice is done for our citizens . . . . I want this case to be completed. Until that happens, it will continue to burden our relationship.”
“To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.”
“The sermon is now the true poppy of literature.”

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