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"Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past."

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Optimists think that this is the best of all possible worlds; pessimists fear they are right.

— J. Robert Oppenheimer

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The pessimist is the man who believes things couldn't possibly be worse, to which the optimist replies: 'Oh yes they could!'

— Vladimir Bukovsky

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