"Some people argue against both optimism and pessimism in favor of so-called realistic thinking. They distrust optimism on the grounds that it causes us to sugercoat problems, discount risks, and exaggerate the upside. Pessimism, on the other hand, is criticized as too downbeat, de-energizing, and generally damaging in its impact. This crown prefers realism as the neutral and objective middle ground."

-- Price Pritchett

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“Football can stand parity better than any of the other sports, I think. Baseball, basketball and hockey need a defining team, in essence to frame the season. Football? Not so much.”

Source : "The Chat House with Michael Wilbon". Live Chat, www.washingtonpost.com. October 4, 2010.
“While reading writers of great formulatory power â€” Henry James, Santayana, Proust â€” I find I can scarcely get through a page without having to stop to record some lapidary sentence. Reading Henry James, for example, I have muttered to myself, "Câ€™mon, Henry, turn down the brilliance a notch, so I can get some reading done." I may be one of a very small number of people who have developed writerâ€™s cramp while reading.”
“I don't know why people think I'm polished - I often leave the house with buttons missing and ladders in my tights.”
“What an exciting super-tomorrow it will be! Americans are today making the greatest scientific developments in our history. That is a promise of new levels of employment, industrial activity and human happiness.”
“I try to get that across in the work, to try to, if I'm lucky, to make this world a little bit better for all of us before I check out. And that's if I'm lucky, I don't always get to have that privilege but I try always.”
“By measuring individual human worth, the novelist reveals the full enormity of the State”
“Guys who might not be superstars but because of their hustle, because of the little things they do, these are the guys who can really mean the difference between winning and losing.”
“I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma.”

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