"Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists."

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Thomas Friedman

#Change Quotes #Optimistic Quotes #Pessimist Quotes

“Struggle so that all may live this rich, overflowing life. And be sure that in this struggle you will find a joy greater than anything else can give.”

Source : Peter Kropotkin (2012). “Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings”, p.113, Courier Corporation
“The principle we call self-love never seeks anything external for the sake of the thing, but only as a means of happiness or good: particular affections rest in the external things themselves.”

Source : Joseph Butler, Stephen L. Darwall (1983). “Five Sermons, Preached at the Rolls Chapel and A Dissertation Upon the Nature of Virtue”, p.47, Hackett Publishing
“Some like them hot,some like them cold. Some like them when they're not to darn old Some like them fat,some like them lean. Some like them only at sweet sixteen. Some like them dark,some like them light. Some like them in the park,late at night. Some like them fickle,some like them true, But the time I like them is when they're like you”

Source : Ring Lardner (2013). “Ring Lardner: Stories & Other Writings”, p.702, Library of America
“Connecting with others is rewarding; it makes us feel like we're not alone in the world.”
“We need to feel that life is important; we need that fantasy so we can live a littleÂ better.”
“But surely, speaking carefully, we do not sense 'red' and 'blue' any more than 'resemblance' (or 'qualities' any more than 'relations'): we sense something of which we might say, if we wished to talk about it, that 'this is red.”

Source : "Philosophical Papers" by J. L. Austin, James Opie Urmson, Geoffrey James Warnock, 3rd ed., New York: Oxford, (p. 49), 1979.
“The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.”

Source : "Reviving the love Labour's lost". Interview with Jackie Ashley, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2003.
“Become corrupt, corrupt, and you will cease to suffer!" This has been the cry of all cities to man...”

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