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I've watched a whole lot of really bad independent films, but I guess I'm just an eternal optimist.
Maggie Cheung is a naive, sweet optimist who accidentally picks a real lowlife very crude low-level sociopath gangster.
That's me, I guess; the eternal optimist, thinking one day Hollywood will see the error of their ways.
In short, I am an optimist.
Of course, there is always an optimist around to offer a positive spin.
Only an unreconstructed optimist would give the talks more than a 50% chance of succeeding.
Even a lapsed optimist can see that this time the chances for reconciliation just might be better after all.
An Agenda to Save the EuroNEW YORK – It has been three years since the outbreak of the euro crisis, and only an inveterate optimist would say that the worst is definitely over.
Latin America’s Tale of Two CrisesMEXICO CITY – If one were an irredeemable optimist, upcoming events in Venezuela and Colombia could be viewed as a harbinger of good things to come.
Mazrui, forever the optimist, expressed hope that the “human will has the power of restoration.”
But I am an optimist, so instead of moaning I will leave you with some more good news.
Even to the most inveterate optimist, the G7 summit in Quebec earlier this month was proof that the geopolitical West is breaking up and losing its global significance, and that the great destroyer of that American-created and American-led order is none other than the US president.
I have been an optimist about China for 15 years.
If you are an optimist, you might even conclude that Europe will therefore ultimately emerge stronger.
I used to be a technology optimist.
Though I am an optimist, I am not blind to the problems that we face, or to the challenges that we must overcome to accelerate progress in the next 15 years.
Only an incurable optimist can hope that the summit will bring glory to any of them.
While suggesting that it would be prudent for countries to hedge against the worst-case scenario, Rudd made clear that he is an optimist: provided the rest of the world maintains a policy of cooperative engagement with China, incoming President Xi Jinping and his team will choose a non-confrontational path.
“The science of politics...like most other sciences,” claimed Alexander Hamilton, “has received great improvement....The regular distribution of power into distinct departments...legislative balances and checks...judges holding their offices during good behavior; the representation of the people in the legislature by deputies of their own election...are means, and powerful means, by which the excellences of republican government may be retained and its imperfections lessened or avoided...”Perhaps Hamilton was too much the optimist.
Though I am, by nature, an optimist, I have to admit that it is very difficult not to be pessimistic as 2014 comes to a close.
It is enough to test even the most diehard optimist.
An optimist (or an apologist) could argue that, though market income has indeed become grossly more unequal since 1979, with the slots in the bottom half of the income distribution losing absolute ground in real income, and with taxation becoming less progressive, welfare-state growth substantially moderated this increase in inequality.
Keynes was an optimist in believing that governments could learn to manage the business cycle.
The optimist may reply that the pessimist’s imagination is too weak to envisage the full range of wonderful new job possibilities that automation is opening up.
Having said that, there is a more hopeful explanation, to which I subscribe, at the risk of being labeled an irrational optimist.
But if a striver, a hustler, a charming and determined optimist can make a difference, then anyone has a shot at helping to create a better world.
The optimist says: leave it to the market to forge a new, superior equilibrium, as it always has.
I still believe we will navigate the threats we face, but even a climate optimist knows the sentiment may not last forever.
True, an optimist might argue that after winning re-election, Trump would soften his stance and focus on doing business with China rather than stoking enmity.
"Why, good God! you will be deceived just the same," said Athos, who was an optimist when things were concerned, and a pessimist when men were in question.
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